Psalms 83:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁶Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.

Psalms 83:16 —

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← Psalms 83:15 Psalms 83:17 →

Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 9:19-20
Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight. …
Psalms 6:10
Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed: let them return and be ashamed suddenly.
Psalms 34:5
They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.
Psalms 109:29
Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
Psalms 132:18
His enemies will I clothe with shame: but upon himself shall his crown flourish.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Backsliders Blessing Chastisement Enquiring of God God Importunity Judgments

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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 16)

16. that they may seek--or as Psa 83:18, supply “men,” since Psa 83:17, 18 amplify the sentiment of Psa 83:16, expressing more fully the measure of destruction, and the lesson of God’s being and perfections (compare 2Ch 20:29) taught to all men.