Psalms 83:2
For lo! thine enemies, are tumultuous, And, they who hate thee, have lifted up the head;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
In Context
1O God, Do not keep quiet, Do not hold thy peace, Neither be thou still, O GOD!
3Against thy people, they craftily devise a secret plot, And conspire against thy treasured ones.
Cross References
2 Kings 19:28Because, thy raging against me, and thy contempt, have come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my ring in thy nose, and my bit in thy lips, and will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
Psalms 74:4Thine adversaries have roared in the midst of thine appointed meeting, They have set their ensigns as tokens!
Psalms 75:4I have said to the boasters, Do not boast, And to the lawless, Do not lift up a horn;
Psalms 93:3The floods have lifted up, O Yahweh, The floods have lifted up—their voice, The floods have lifted up—their dashing waves.
Isaiah 17:12Alas! the booming of many peoples, Like the booming of the seas, shall they boom,—And the rushing of nations! Like the rushing of mighty waters, shall they rush.
Isaiah 37:29Because, thy raging against me, and thy contempt, have come up into mine ears, Therefore will I put My ring in thy nose, and My bit in thy lips, And will turn thee back, by the way by which thou camest.
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 →