Don’t overlook what your enemies have said or their growing uproar.
Parallel translations
- WEB Don’t forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.
- KJV Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.
- BSB Do not disregard the clamor of Your adversaries, the uproar of Your enemies that ascends continually.
- NKJV Do not forget the voice of Your enemies; The tumult of those who rise up against You increases continually.
- NASB Do not forget the voice of Your adversaries, The uproar of those who rise against You, which ascends continually.
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Quick answer
Asaph closes by asking God not to forget the rising clamor of His adversaries.
Overview
The psalm ends with a final appeal for God to take note of the relentless, mounting hostility of His enemies. The unceasing tumult underscores the desperate situation, yet the prayer entrusts the matter to God. This confident handing over of the cause to the righteous Judge anticipates the final vindication God will bring through Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Ps 65:7who stills the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, and the turmoil of the nations.
- Isa 37:29Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore will I put my hook in your nose and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.
- Rev 17:14These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings, and those who are with him are called chosen and faithful.”
- Ps 13:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
- Ps 2:1–2Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
- Lam 2:16All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you. They hiss and gnash the teeth. They say, “We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found it. We have seen it.”
- Ps 74:4Your adversaries have roared in the middle of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs.
- Jonah 1:2“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before me.”
- Ps 10:11–12He says in his heart, “God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it.”
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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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