Psalms 83:2
For, behold, your enemies are stirred up.Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
In Context
1A song. A Psalm by Asaph.God, do not keep silent.Do not keep silent,and do not be still, God.
3They conspire with cunning against your people.They plot against your cherished ones.
Cross References
2 Kings 19:28Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore will I put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came."
Psalms 74:4Your adversaries have roared in the midst of your assembly.They have set up their standards as signs.
Psalms 75:4I said to the arrogant, "Do not boast!"I said to the wicked, "Do not lift up the horn.
Psalms 93:3The floods have lifted up, Lord,the floods have lifted up their voice.The floods lift up their waves.
Isaiah 17:12Ah, the uproar of many peoples, who roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters!
Isaiah 37:29Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore will I put my hook in your nose and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 83:2-9
Complaints against Enemies. 1 Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God. 2 For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head. 3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones. 4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. 5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee: 6 The tabernacles of… Read the whole commentary →