Psalms 83:2
For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
Psalms 83:2 in other translations
| BSB | See how Your enemies rage, how Your foes have reared their heads. |
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| 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. |
| YLT | For, lo, Thine enemies do roar, And those hating Thee have lifted up the head, |
| DARBY | For behold, thine enemies make a tumult; and they that hate thee lift up the head. |
| BBE | For see! those who make war on you are out of control; your haters are lifting up their heads. |
| Webster | For lo, thy enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head. |
What does Psalms 83:2 mean?
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 83:1-8
Sometimes God seems not to be concerned at the unjust treatment of his people. But then we may call upon him, as the psalmist here. All wicked people are God's enemies, especially wicked persecutors. The Lord's people are his hidden one; the world knows them not. He takes them under his special protection. Do the enemies of the church act with one consent to destroy it, and shall not the friends of the church be…
Psalms 83:2 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 83:2
- Psalms 81:15
The haters of the Lord should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever.
- Matthew 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.
- Isaiah 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!
- Isaiah 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.
- Jeremiah 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.
- Judges 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.
- Psalms 2:1-2
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying,
- 2 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.
- Acts 23:10
And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces of them, commanded the soldiers to go down, and to take him by force from among them, and to bring him into the castle.
- Psalms 74:23
Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.
- Acts 22:22
And they gave him audience unto this word, and then lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not fit that he should live.
- Acts 4:25-27
Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things? The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ. For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,
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Context
- Psalms 83:1
A Song or Psalm of Asaph. Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
- Psalms 83:2
For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
- Psalms 83:3
They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.
Psalms 83:2 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Porque he aquí que braman tus enemigos; y tus aborrecedores han alzado cabeza. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Ô Dieu! ne garde pas le silence. Ne te tais pas, et ne te tiens pas tranquille, ô ✶Dieu! |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Denn siehe, deine Feinde toben, und deine Hasser erheben das Haupt. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Quam dilecta tabernacula tua, Domine virtutum! |