Psalms 83:1
How amiable are your tabernacles, O Lord of hosts! 1
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 28:1Bring to the Lord, you⌃ sons of God, bring to the Lord young rams; bring to the Lord glory and honor. 1
Psalms 50:3For I am conscious of my iniquity; and my sin is continually before me. 1
Isaiah 42:14I have been silent: shall I also always be silent and forbear: I have endured like a travailing woman: I will now amaze and wither at once.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 83:1
This psalm is the last of those that go under the name of Asaph. It is penned, as most of those, upon a public account, with reference to the insults of the church's enemies, who sought its ruin. Some think it was penned upon occasion of the threatening descent which was made upon the land of Judah in Jehoshaphat's time by the Moabites and Ammonites, those children of Lot here spoken of ( ver. 8 ), who were at the head of the alliance and to whom all the other states here mentioned were auxiliaries. We have the… Read the whole commentary →