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.

Keep [a]not thou silence, O God: be not still, and cease not, O God.

For lo, thine [b]enemies make a tumult, and they that hate thee, have lifted up the head.

They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and have consulted against thy [c]secret ones.

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Footnotes

  1. 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.
  2. Psalm 83:2 He calleth them God’s enemies, which are enemies to his Church.
  3. 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.

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