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...