Psalms 83:2
1 Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
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.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- See how Your enemies rage, how Your foes have reared their heads.
- KJV
- For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
- WEB
- For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.
- ASV
- For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult; And they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
- DARBY
- For behold, thine enemies make a tumult; and they that hate thee lift up the head.
- BLB
- For behold, Your enemies roar, and those hating You have lifted up the head.
- ÅB
- For se, dine fiender larmer, og de som hater deg, løfter hodet.
- OTB
- For se, dine fiender er i opprør,
Og de som motsetter seg deg har løftet seg opp. - B1930
- For se, dine fiender larmer, og de som hater dig, løfter hodet.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 81:15
The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever.
Read in contextMatthew 27:24
When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.
Read in contextIsaiah 17:12
Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
Read in contextIsaiah 37:23
Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
Read in contextJeremiah 1:19
And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the LORD, to deliver thee.
Read in contextJudges 8:28
Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so that they lifted up their heads no more. And the country was in quietness forty years in the days of Gideon.
Read in contextPsalms 2:1–2
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
Read in context2 Kings 19:28
Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
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