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Psalms 83:3

They have taken … and consulted They are taking … and consulting together. Jehovah's hidden onesare His people whom He conceals in His pavilion in the day of trouble (Psalms 27:5; Psalms 31:20), those to whom He has given an asylum from their enemies. The later Greek Versions (Aq. Symm. Theod.) and Jerome read the singular, thy secret place, i.e. the temple, cp. Ezekiel 7:22.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 83:3. _CONSULTED AGAINST THY HIDDEN ONES._] צפוניך _tsephuneycha, Thy hidden things; places; persons_. "The hidden things in thy treasures." - CHALDEE. "Thy holy ones." - SYRIAC. "Thy sa...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THEY HAVE TAKEN CRAFTY COUNSEL - The one word translated “have taken crafty” - ערם _‛__âram_ - means properly to make naked; and then, to be crafty, cunning, malignant, 1 Samuel 23:22. It is well ren...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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,...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THY HIDDEN ONES— God's _hidden_ or _treasured ones,_ are those faithful ones whom he keeps up safe and precious as his treasures. The Chaldee paraphrase renders it, _Thy hidden treasures;_ and elsewhe...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones. THEY HAVE TAKEN CRAFTY COUNSEL AGAINST THY PEOPLE - They combine craft with violence. AND CONSULTED AGAIN...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    83:3 ones. (f-13) See Psalms 31:20 ....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THY HIDDEN ONES] those in God's protection: cp. Psalms 27:5; Psalms 31:20....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THEY HAVE TAKEN CRAFTY COUNSEL. — Literally, _They have made their plot crafty_; or, as we say, “They have laid a deep plot.” HIDDEN ONES — _i.e.,_ those under God’s close protection, as in Psalms 17:...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Psalms 83:4]_ עַֽל ־עַ֭מְּךָ יַעֲרִ֣ימוּ סֹ֑וד וְ֝...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy (c) hidden ones. (c) The elect of God are his secret ones: for he hides them in the secret of his tabernacle, and preserve...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Fainteth. The eager desire of heaven sometimes deprives people of external satisfaction, and the body partakes of the inward joy. (Worthington) --- Living. The idols of Babylon have no life. (Eusebiu...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Do, Reader, remark the expression; the Lord's hidden ones. As Christ himself is said to be hid in the Father's shadow, in his hand, and in his quiver, Isaiah 49:2; so Christ's little ones are said to...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _‘THY HIDDEN ONES’_ ‘They have … consulted against Thy hidden ones.’ Psalms 83:3 I. WE MAY DRAW SWEET AND ALMOST INEXHAUSTIBLE INSTRUCTION FROM THE NAMES GIVEN TO THE CHILDREN OF GOD IN SCRIPTURE.—...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THEY HAVE TAKEN CRAFTY COUNSEL AGAINST THY PEOPLE,.... The people of Israel, hereafter named, whom God had chosen and avouched to be his people; these they dealt subtlety with, as the king of Egypt ha...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones. Ver. 3. _They have taken crafty counsel, &c._] They have negotiated this league with much subtilty and solici...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _They have consulted against thy hidden ones_ That is, against thy people Israel, as it is explained in the foregoing words, and in the next verse. They are called God's _hidden_, or _secret ones_, צפ...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    They have taken crafty counsel, laying their plans in secret and with guile, AGAINST THY PEOPLE, primarily Israel, but as typical of the spiritual Israel, AND CONSULTED AGAINST THY HIDDEN ONES, the nu...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-8 Sometimes God seems not to be concerned at the unjust treatment of his people. But then we may call upon him, as the psalmist here. All wicked people are God's enemies, especially wicked persecut...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    i.e. Thy people of Israel, as it is explained in the foregoing words, and in the next verse; who are called God's hidden or secret ones, to intimate the singular care and respect which God hath to the...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 83:3 crafty H6191 (H8686) counsel H5475 people H5971 consulted H3289 (H8691) ones H6845 (H8803)...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _They have taken crafty counsel against Thy people, and consulted against Thy hidden ones._ THE ENMITY OF THE WICKED AGAINST THE CHURCH I. The enmity which the wicked bear to the Church of God, and...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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,...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 13:19; Colossians 3:3; Isaiah 7:6; Isaiah 7:7; Luke 20:20;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Hidden ones — Thy people of Israel, who are called God's hidden or secret ones, to intimate the respect which God has to them, as to his peculiar treasure....

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