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15So persecute{H8799)} them with thy tempest, and make them afraid{H8762)} with thy storm.

Psalms 83:15

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.

  • Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.

  • Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

  • Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.

  • For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 9-18)

The psalmist here, in the name of the church, prays for the destruction of those confederate forces, and, in God’s name, foretels it; for this prayer that it might be so amounts to a prophecy that it shall be so, and this prophecy reaches to all the enemies of the gospel-church; whoever they be that oppose the kingdom of Christ, here they may read their doom. The prayer is, in short, that these en…

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