Psalms 83:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.

Psalms 83:2 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 81:15
The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever.
Matthew 27:24
When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.
Jeremiah 1:19
And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the LORD, to deliver thee.
Judges 8:28
Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so that they lifted up their heads no more. And the country was in quietness forty years in the days of Gideon.
Isaiah 17:12
Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!

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Commentary

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

(vv. 1-8)

The Israel of God were now in danger, and fear, and great distress, and yet their prayer is called, A song or psalm; for singing psalms is not unseasonable, no, not when the harps are hung upon the willow-trees. I. The psalmist here begs of God to appear on the behalf of his injured threatened people (Ps. 83:1): “ Keep not thou silence, O God! but give judgment for us against those that do us an a…

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

(vv. 2)

2. thine enemies--as well as ours (Psa 74:23; Is 37:23).