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Verse Psalms 83:15. _SO PERSECUTE THEM_] In this and the two
following verses we find several awful execrations; and all this seems
to be done in reference to that ancient custom, "pouring execration...
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SO PERSECUTE THEM - So pursue them; so follow them up. The word
“persecute” is now used in a somewhat different sense, as denoting
pain or suffering inflicted on account of religious opinion. It means...
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Psalms 83
The Final Enemies Overthrown
_ 1. The enemies in confederacy (Psalms 83:1)_
2. Their complete defeat and fate (Psalms 83:9)
Elsewhere in prophecy we read of the confederacies of nations,...
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LXXXIII. The date can be fixed with a near approach to certainty. The
clue is furnished by 1 Maccabees 5. The victories of Judas Maccabæ us
and the cleansing of the Temple in 165 B.C. (p. 607) were fo...
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PERSECUTE. pursue....
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Renewed prayer for the dispersion and destruction of the enemy
expressed by figures from nature. The final end and object of all is
that they may acknowledge Jehovah to be supreme....
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As fire that consumeth a forest,
And as flame that burneth up mountains;
So shalt thou pursue them with thy tempest,
And dismay them with thy hurricane.
God's wrath is a fiery blast which at once...
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PSALMS 83
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE
An Appeal to God for Deliverance from an Impending Invasion.
ANALYSIS
Stanza I., Psalms 83:1-4, Israel's Enemies described as the Enemies of
Godtheir Destructive Designs...
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O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
-Second part of the second main division. Prayer inspired by God for
the extinction of the foe by the fiery storm of God.
Verse 13...
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PERSECUTE] RV 'pursue.'...
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This Ps. describes a confederacy of God's enemies, the object of which
is to attack and exterminate Israel (Psalms 83:2). A list of the
allies is given (Psalms 83:6). The Psalmist appeals to God to
in...
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Psalms 73:89
_GORDON CHURCHYARD_
ENEMIES ALL ROUND US!
PSALMS 83
Jesus said, "I am sending you like sheep into a group of wolves. So,
be as clever as snakes but, like the dove, do not hurt anybod...
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These verses are rightly taken together. The figure occurs in Isaiah
10:17 (comp. Zechariah 12:6), but there as a metaphor; here as a
simile. “Before the rains came the whole mountain side was in a
bl...
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_[Psalms 83:16]_ כֵּ֭ן תִּרְדְּפֵ֣ם בְּ
סַעֲרֶ֑ךָ וּ...
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Psalms 83:1
THIS psalm is a cry for help against a world in arms. The failure of
all attempts to point to a period when all the allies here represented
as confederate against Israel were or could have...
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“THE MOST HIGH OVER ALL THE EARTH”
Psalms 83:1
This psalm was composed on the occasion described in 2 Chronicles
20:1, where we learn that at a great crisis the Spirit of God came on
Jahaziel, one of...
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The psalmist has a vision of the confederacy of all the enemies of the
people of God. This he describes as to its process, it constitution,
and its purpose. They have taken counsel together with the a...
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There is not only a great beauty in this appeal and prayer of the
church, against all her enemies, but also a great exercise of faith,
in divine dependence. We give God credit for all that is to come,...
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Psalms 83 requires only to call attention to its subject. It is the
last confederacy of the nations surrounding Canaan, with Assur helping
them. At the close of the psalm, though the cry be to God as...
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SO PERSECUTE THEM WITH THY TEMPEST,.... Pursue them with thy fury,
follow them with thy vengeance; cause it to fall upon them like a
mighty tempest:
AND MAKE THEM AFRAID WITH THY STORM; God has his s...
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A PRAYER FOR HELP AGAINST THE ENEMIES OF THE CHURCH.
A song or psalm of Asaph, the last of his twelve hymns in the psalter,
picturing the craft and rage of the enemies and invoking God's speedy
destr...
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So persecute them with Thy tempest and make them afraid, completely
overthrowing them, WITH THY STORM....
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9-18 All who oppose the kingdom of Christ may here read their doom.
God is the same still that ever he was; the same to his people, and
the same against his and their enemies. God would make their en...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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Psalms 83:15 pursue H7291 (H8799) tempest H5591 frighten H926 (H8762)
storm H5492
Psalms 11:6
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This is a Psalm that is not often read, and very seldom expounded, I
should think. According to the title, it is «A Song or Psalm of
Asaph.» Asaph is one of a little group of poets who flourished side...
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CONTENTS: An appeal to God's jealousy for His cause and prayer for
defeat of enemies.
CHARACTERS: God, Asaph, Sisera, Zeeb, Jabin, Oreb.
CONCLUSION: We cannot but be zealous against those who federat...
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This psalm bears the style and character of Asaph's composition. It
has been referred to the time of Hezekiah, when Sennacherib came up
against Judea; but he came equally against Egypt, and all the ni...
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_Keep not Thou silence, O God: hold not Thy peace, and be not still, O
God._
AN APPEAL TO HEAVEN
I. A lamentable social scene (Psalms 83:2). The scene is that of men
in tumultuous hostility both to...
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PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 83:1. This is a community lament,
responding to a situation in which God’s people are threatened by
Gentile enemies (vv. Psalms 83:6) who aim
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PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 83:9 The basic request is that these enemies
would utterly fail in their scheme. The ultimate reason for Israel’s
existence is to serve God’s purpose of restoring true worship and...
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INTRODUCTION
This is the last of the Psalms of Asaph. If the Psalm refers to the
times of Jehoshaphat, the author was probably “Jahaziel, a Levite of
the sons of Asaph,” upon whom “came the Spirit of...
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EXPOSITION
THE psalmist makes a passionate appeal to God on behalf of Israel at a
time of great danger. A confederacy has been formed among the
surrounding nations, having for its object the destructi...
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Psa 83:1-18 is a psalm where he is speaking out of the calamities that
the enemies have brought upon them and asking for God's deliverance as
He had in their past history. Asking God to work, "O God,...
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Ezekiel 13:11; Hebrews 12:18; Isaiah 28:17; Isaiah 30:30; Job 27:20