Limitless Word

Part of Book III📖 Psalms introduction

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1God, do not remain quiet; Do not be silent and, God, do not be still. 2For behold, Your enemies make an uproar, And those who hate You have exalted themselves. 3They make shrewd plans against Your people, And conspire together against Your treasured ones. 4They have said, “Come, and let’s wipe them out as a nation, So that the name of Israel will no longer be remembered.” 5For they have conspired together with one mind; They make a covenant against You: 6The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites; 7Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre; 8Assyria also has joined them; They have become a help to the children of Lot. Selah 9¶Deal with them as with Midian, As with Sisera and Jabin at the river of Kishon, 10Who were destroyed at En-dor, Who became like dung for the ground. 11Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, And all their leaders like Zebah and Zalmunna, 12Who said, “Let’s possess for ourselves The pastures of God.” 13¶My God, make them like the whirling dust, Like chaff before the wind. 14Like fire that burns the forest, And like a flame that sets the mountains on fire, 15So pursue them with Your heavy gale, And terrify them with Your storm. 16Fill their faces with dishonor, So that they will seek Your name, Lord. 17May they be ashamed and dismayed forever, And may they be humiliated and perish, 18So that they will know that You alone, whose name is the Lord, Are the Most High over all the earth.

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Where this chapter connects

Christ at the center

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.

How Psalms 83 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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    A clear ~10-minute audio teaching for every one of the Bible's 1,189 chapters — the most systematic free way to study chapter by chapter.

  • ★ Start hereCommentaryPsalms (Tyndale OT Commentaries)Derek Kidner · Paid · evangelical

    Concise, theologically rich, and wonderfully accessible — the best place to start on the Psalms.

Pastoral

  • SermonChuck Smith — C2000 SeriesChuck Smith · Free · evangelical

    Free verse-by-verse audio through the entire Bible from the founder of Calvary Chapel.

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  • VideoBibleProject — Psalms videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Free animated overview and word-study videos for this book.

  • VideoWatch teaching on Psalms 83YouTube · Lay · Free

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  • CommentaryEnduring Word — Psalms 83David Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Readable, verse-by-verse exposition of the whole chapter.

  • CommentaryMatthew Henry on PsalmsMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical

    The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).

  • ReferenceBlue Letter Bible — Psalms 83Blue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

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