Psalms 83:2
For, lo, Thine enemies do roar, And those hating Thee have lifted up the head,
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
In Context
3Against Thy people they take crafty counsel, And consult against Thy hidden ones.
Cross References
2 Kings 19:28Because of thine anger towards Me, And thy noise — it came up into Mine ears, I have put My hook in thy nose, And My bridle in thy lips, And have caused thee to turn back, In the way in which thou camest.
Psalms 74:4Roared have thine adversaries, In the midst of Thy meeting-places, They have set their ensigns as ensigns.
Psalms 75:4I have said to the boastful, 'Be not boastful,' And to the wicked, 'Raise not up a horn.'
Psalms 93:3Floods have lifted up, O Jehovah, Floods have lifted up their voice, Floods lift up their breakers.
Isaiah 17:12Woe [to] the multitude of many peoples, As the sounding of seas they sound; And [to] the wasting of nations, As the wasting of mighty waters they are wasted.
Isaiah 37:29Because of thy anger towards Me, And thy noise — it came up into Mine ears, I have put My hook in thy nose, And My bridle in thy lips, And I have caused thee to turn back In the way in 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 →