geneva - 83

geneva@Psalms:83:1 @ «A Song [or] Psalm of Asaph.» Keep (note:)This psalm seems to have been composed as a form of prayer against the dangers that the Church was in, in the days of Jehoshaphat.(:note) not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.

geneva@Psalms:83:2 @ For, lo, thine (note:)He calls them God's enemies, who are enemies of his Church.(:note) enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.

geneva@Psalms:83:3 @ They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy (note:)The elect of God are his secret ones: for he hides them in the secret of his tabernacle, and preserves them from all dangers.(:note) hidden ones.

geneva@Psalms:83:4 @ They have said, Come, and let us (note:)They were not content to take the Church as prisoner: but sought to utterly destroy it.(:note) cut them off from [being] a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.

geneva@Psalms:83:5 @ For they have consulted together (note:)By all secret means.(:note) with one consent: they are confederate They thought to have subverted your counsel in which the constancy of the Church was established. against thee:

geneva@Psalms:83:6 @ The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Agarims:

geneva@Psalms:83:7 @ Gebal and Ammon, and Amalech, the Philistims with the inhabitants of Tyrus:

geneva@Psalms:83:8 @ Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children (note:)The wickedness of the Ammonites and Moabites is described in that they provoked these other nations to fight against the Israelites.(:note) of Lot. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:83:9 @ Do unto them as [unto] the (note:)By these examples they were confirmed that God would not permit his people to be completely destroyed, (Jdg_7:21, Jdg_4:15).(:note) Midianites; as [to] Sisera, as [to] Jabin, at the brook of Kison:

geneva@Psalms:83:10 @ [Which] perished at Endor: they became [as] (note:)Trodden under foot as mire.(:note) dung for the earth.

geneva@Psalms:83:11 @ Make them, euen their princes like Oreb and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes like Zebah and like Zalmuna.

geneva@Psalms:83:12 @ Who said, Let us take to ourselves the (note:)That is, Judea: for where his Church is, there he dwells among them.(:note) houses of God in possession.

geneva@Psalms:83:13 @ O my God, make them like a (note:)Because the reprobate could by no means be amended, he prays that they may utterly be destroyed, be unstable and led by all winds.(:note) wheel; as the stubble before the wind.

geneva@Psalms:83:14 @ As the fire burneth the forest, and as the flame setteth the mountaines on fire:

geneva@Psalms:83:15 @ So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraide with thy storme.

geneva@Psalms:83:16 @ Fill their faces with shame; that they may (note:)That is, be compelled by your plagues to confess your power.(:note) seek thy name, O LORD.

geneva@Psalms:83:17 @ Let them be confounded and troubled for euer: yea, let them be put to shame and perish,

geneva@Psalms:83:18 @ That [men] may (note:)Though they do not believe, yet they may prove by experience, that it is in vain to resist against your counsel in establishing your Church.(:note) know that thou, whose name alone [is] JEHOVAH, [art] the most high over all the earth.

Psalms 83