Psalms 83:1
A song, or Psalme committed to Asaph. Keep not thou silence, O God: bee not still, and cease not, O God.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
In Context
2For lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee, haue lifted vp the head.
Cross References
Psalms 28:1A Psalme of David. Unto thee, O Lord, doe I crie: O my strength, be not deafe toward mee, lest, if thou answere me not, I be like them that goe downe into the pit.
Psalms 44:23Vp, why sleepest thou, O Lord? awake, be not farre off for euer.
Psalms 50:3Our God shall come and shall not keepe silence: a fire shall deuoure before him, and a mightie tempest shall be mooued round about him.
Isaiah 42:14I haue a long time holden my peace: I haue beene still and refrained my selfe: nowe will I crie like a trauailing woman: I will destroy and deuoure 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 →