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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 83:16

Thy name, O Lord. — Rather, thy name (which is) Jehovah. The nations were to seek Him not only as God, but as Jehovah God of Israel. This is proved by Psalms 83:18. No doubt the thought uppermost in the verse is the submission of the heathen to Jehovah’s power. But we may, looking back, read in it a nobler wish and a grander hope — the prophetic hope of a union of nations in a belief in the common fatherhood of God.

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See also Psalms 83:16 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 83:16. _THAT THEY MAY SEEK THY NAME_] Let them be confounded in all their attempts on Israel; and see, so manifestly, that thou hast done it, that they may invoke thy name, and be convert...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    FILL THEIR FACES WITH SHAME - As those who are disappointed and foiled in their plans - such disappointment and confusion commonly manifesting itself in the face. The prayer here is, that their enemie...

  • 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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    THEIR: i.e. the enemies. THEY: i.e. Israel, or Thy People. LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Fill their faces_with _shame_ Or, disgrace. Let them be disgraced by defeat and disappointed in their project. But this is only as the means to the higher end, that they may seek Jehovah's name, reco...

  • 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

    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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Psalms 83:17]_ מַלֵּ֣א פְנֵיהֶ֣ם קָלֹ֑ון וִֽ יבַקְשׁ֖וּ...

  • 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

    Fill their faces with shame; that they may (m) seek thy name, O LORD. (m) That is, be compelled by your plagues to confess your power....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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,...

  • 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

    FILL THEIR FACES WITH SHAME,.... For their sins, or rather through disappointment, not being able to put their desperate and deep laid schemes into execution: or "with lightness" o; instead of a weigh...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD. Ver. 16. _Fill their faces with shame_] By confounding their confidences, and blasting their designs. They promised themselves a triu...

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

    _Fill, &c., that they may seek thy name_ That, being disappointed of their hopes, and discerning the impotence of their idols, they may own and worship thee as the only true God. _Let them be put to s...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Fill their faces with shame, disgrace being heaped upon them by their overthrow, THAT THEY MAY SEEK THY NAME, O LORD, acknowledging the exclusive divinity of Jehovah, whether willingly or under compul...

  • 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

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    That being disappointed of their hopes, and discerning the impotency of their idols, they may own and worship thee as the only true God....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 83:16 Fill H4390 (H8761) faces H6440 shame H7036 seek H1245 (H8762) name H8034 LORD H3068...

  • 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

    _Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek Thy name, O Lord._ SHAME LEADING TO SALVATION I. Ungodly men have good cause to be ashamed-- 1. Because of the wrong they are doing to their Maker....

  • 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 ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • 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

    Psalms 34:5; Psalms 6:10; Psalms 9:19; Psalms 9:20...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    May seek — May own and worship thee as the only true God....

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