Psalms 83:1
God, don’t keep silent. Don’t keep silent, and don’t be still, God.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
In Context
2For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.
Cross References
Psalms 28:1To you, LORD, I call. My rock, don’t be deaf to me, lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.
Psalms 44:23Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don’t reject us forever.
Psalms 50:3Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him.
Isaiah 42:14“I have been silent a long time. I have been quiet and restrained myself. Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will both gasp and pant.
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 →