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Psalms 83

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Part of Book III📖 Psalms introduction

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1O God, do not be silent! Do not be deaf. Do not be quiet, O God. ✦ 2Don’t you hear the uproar of your enemies? Don’t you see that your arrogant enemies are rising up? ✦ 3They devise crafty schemes against your people; they conspire against your precious ones. ✦ 4“Come,” they say, “let us wipe out Israel as a nation. We will destroy the very memory of its existence.” ✦ 5Yes, this was their unanimous decision. They signed a treaty as allies against you— ✦ 6these Edomites and Ishmaelites; Moabites and Hagrites; ✦ 7Gebalites, Ammonites, and Amalekites; and people from Philistia and Tyre. ✦ 8Assyria has joined them, too, and is allied with the descendants of Lot. Interlude ✦ 9Do to them as you did to the Midianites and as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River. ✦ 10They were destroyed at Endor, and their decaying corpses fertilized the soil. ✦ 11Let their mighty nobles die as Oreb and Zeeb did. Let all their princes die like Zebah and Zalmunna, ✦ 12for they said, “Let us seize for our own use these pasturelands of God!” ✦ 13O my God, scatter them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind! ✦ 14As a fire burns a forest and as a flame sets mountains ablaze, ✦ 15chase them with your fierce storm; terrify them with your tempest. ✦ 16Utterly disgrace them until they submit to your name, O Lord. ✦ 17Let them be ashamed and terrified forever. Let them die in disgrace. ✦ 18Then they will learn that you alone are called the Lord, that you alone are the Most High, supreme over all the earth. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Ps 74 ·5Ps 35 ·42 Chr 20 ·3Ps 9 ·3Ps 109 ·3Isa 7 ·31 Chr 5 ·22 Kgs 19 ·2

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.

Resources, by level

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  • ★ Start hereAudioThrough the WordThrough the Word · ~10 min/chapter · Free · evangelical

    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.

Commentaries & study tools

  • 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

    Interlinear, lexicon, and study tools across the chapter.

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