Psalm 83-84
1599 Geneva Bible
83 1 The people of Israel pray unto the Lord to deliver them from their enemies both at home and far off, which imagined nothing but their destruction. 9 And they desire that all such wicked people may according as God was accustomed, be stricken with the stormy tempest of God’s wrath, 18 That they may know that the Lord is most high upon the earth.
A song or Psalm committed to Asaph.
1 Keep [a]not thou silence, O God: be not still, and cease not, O God.
2 For lo, thine [b]enemies make a tumult, and they that hate thee, have lifted up the head.
3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and have consulted against thy [c]secret ones.
4 They have said, Come and let us [d]cut them off from being a nation: and let the name of Israel be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together in [e]heart, and have made a league [f]against thee:
6 The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagarites:
7 Gebal and Ammon, and Amalek, the Philistines, with the inhabitants of [g]Tyre.
8 Assyria also is joined with them: they have been an arm to the children [h]of Lot. Selah.
9 Do thou to them as unto the [i]Midianites: as to Sisera and as to Jabin at the river of Kishon.
10 They perished at En Dor, and were [j]dung for the earth.
11 Make them, even their princes, like (A)Oreb and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes like Zebah and like Zalmunna,
12 Which have said, Let us take for our possession the [k]habitations of God.
13 O my God, make them like unto a [l]wheel, and as the stubble before the wind.
14 As the fire burneth the forest, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire:
15 So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.
16 Fill their faces with shame, that they may [m]seek thy Name, O Lord.
17 Let them be confounded and troubled forever: yea, let them be put to shame, and perish,
18 That they may [n]know that thou, which art calleth Jehovah, art alone, even the most High over all the earth.
84 1 David driven forth of his country, 2 Desireth most ardently to come again to the tabernacle of the Lord and the assembly of the Saints to praise God, 4 pronouncing them blessed that may so do. 6 Then he praiseth the courage of the people, that pass through the wilderness to assemble themselves in Zion. 10 Finally, with praise of this matter and confidence of God’s goodness, he endeth the Psalm.
To him that excelleth upon Gittith. A Psalm committed to the sons of Korah.
1 O [o]Lord of hosts, how amiable are thy Tabernacles?
2 My soul longeth, yea, and fainted for the [p]courts of the Lord: for my heart and my flesh rejoice in the living God.
3 Yea, the sparrow hath found her an house, and the swallow a nest for her, where she may lay her young: even by thine [q]altars, O Lord of hosts, my king and my God.
4 Blessed are they that dwell in thine house, they will ever praise thee. Selah.
5 Blessed is the man whose [r]strength is in thee, and in whose heart are thy ways.
6 They going through the valley of [s]Baca, make wells therein: the rain also covereth the pools.
7 They go from [t]strength to strength, till every one appear before God in Zion.
8 O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer, hearken, O God of Jacob. Selah.
9 Behold, O God, our shield, and look upon the face of thine [u]Anointed.
10 For [v]a day in thy courts is better than a thousand other where: I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tabernacles of wickedness.
11 For the Lord God is the sun and shield unto us: the Lord will give grace and glory, and no [w]good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
12 O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.
Footnotes
- Psalm 83:1 This Psalm seemeth to have been composed as a form of prayer against the dangers that the Church was in, in the days of Jehoshaphat.
- Psalm 83:2 He calleth them God’s enemies, which are enemies to his Church.
- Psalm 83:3 The elect of God are his secret ones: for he hideth them in the secret of his tabernacle, and preserveth them from all dangers.
- Psalm 83:4 They were not content to take the Church as prisoner: but sought utterly to destroy it.
- Psalm 83:5 By all secret means.
- Psalm 83:5 They thought to have subverted thy counsel wherein the perpetuity of the Church was established.
- Psalm 83:7 Or, Zor.
- Psalm 83:8 The wickedness of the Ammonites and Moabites is described in that they provoked these other nations to fight against the Israelites their brethren.
- Psalm 83:9 By these examples they were confirmed, that God would not suffer his people to be utterly destroyed, Judg. 7:21 and 4:15.
- Psalm 83:10 Trodden under feet as mire.
- Psalm 83:12 That is, Judea: for where his Church is, there dwelleth he among them.
- Psalm 83:13 Because the reprobate could by no means be amended, he prayeth that they may utterly be destroyed, be unstable, and led with all winds.
- Psalm 83:16 That is, be compelled by thy plagues to confess thy power.
- Psalm 83:18 Though they believe not, yet they may prove by experience, that it is in vain to resist against thy counsel in establishing thy Church.
- Psalm 84:1 David complaineth that he cannot have access to the Church of God to make profession of his faith, and to profit in religion.
- Psalm 84:2 For none but the Priests could enter into the Sanctuary, and the rest of the people into the courts.
- Psalm 84:3 So that the poor birds have more liberty than I.
- Psalm 84:5 Who trusteth nothing in himself, but in thee only, and learneth of thee to rule his life.
- Psalm 84:6 That is of mulberry trees, which was a barren place: so that they which passed through, must dig pits for water: signifying, that no lets can hinder them that are fully bent to come to Christ’s Church, neither yet that God will ever fail them.
- Psalm 84:7 They are never weary but increase in strength and courage till they come to God’s house.
- Psalm 84:9 That is, for Christ’s sake, whose figure I represent.
- Psalm 84:10 He would wish to live but one day rather in God’s Church, than a thousand among the worldlings.
- Psalm 84:11 But will from time to time increase his blessings toward his more and more.
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