“ Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God. ”
Keep not thou silence, O God - See the notes at Psalms 28:1 . The prayer here is that in the existing emergency God would not seem to be indifferent to the needs and dangers of his people, and t...
"A Song [or] Psalm of Asaph." Keep (a) not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God. (a) This psalm seems to have been composed as a form of prayer against the dangers that t...
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...
Title.. Song. Hebrew. shir . App-65. Psalm. Hebrew. mizmor. App-65. of Asaph. The last of the twelve Asaph Psalms. Probably Jahaziel ' s: compare 2 Chronicles 20:14 ; 2 Chronicles 20:19-2...
1 O God! hold not thy peace. It is very generally agreed among commentators, that this psalm was composed during the reign of king Jehoshaphat; and in this opinion I readily concur. That god...
A Song or Psalm of Asaph. Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God. Keep not thou silence - A strong appeal to God just as the confederacy was discovered. Do not be...
A complaint to God of the enemies' conspiracies. A prayer against them that oppress the church. A Song or Psalm of Asaph. Title. ףּלאס מזמור שׁיר Shiir mizmor lesaph .— It has been common...
Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God. Psalms 83:1-18 .-Prayer for God's open interposition ( Psalms 83:1 ); since God's foes tumultuously assail Israel in...
This Ps. describes a confederacy of God's enemies, the object of which is to attack and exterminate Israel ( Psalms 83:2-5 ). A list of the allies is given ( Psalms 83:6-8 ). The Psalmist appeals to...
Keep not thou silence, O God. — Literally, God, not silence to thee. (Comp. Isaiah 62:7 ; and see Note, Psalms 28:1 .)
Psalms 83:1-18 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 cou...
“The Most High over All the Earth” Psalms 83:1-18 This psalm was composed on the occasion described in 2 Chronicles 20:1-37 , where we learn that at a great crisis the Spirit of God came on Ja...
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...
CONTENTS The Psalmist is here again under affliction, and is looking to the mercy-seat for deliverance. He makes complaint against his enemies, and those of the church. A Song 1-8 Whether we beho...
Keep not thou silence, O God ,.... Which he is thought and said to do, when he does not answer the prayers of his people, nor plead their cause, nor rebuke their enemies; when he does not speak a go...
Psalms 83:1 «A Song [or] Psalm of Asaph. » Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God. Ver. 1. Keep not thou silence, O God ] Ter idem dicit ad vehementiam. He s...
Keep not thou silence, O God Plead for us, not by words, but by thy actions; hold not thy peace Hebrew, אל תחרשׁ, al techeresh: be not deaf , to our prayers, and to the blasphemies of thine and...
Complaints against Enemies. A song or psalm of Asaph. 1 Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be n...
PSALM 83 THE ARGUMENT The occasion of the Psalm is manifest from the body of it, and it seems to have been a dangerous attempt and conspiracy. of divers neighbouring nations against Israel or Judah...
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 o...
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 sid...
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 n...
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 83:2-8 ). The scene is that of men in tumultuous hostility b...
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 d...
Keep not Thou silence, content with resting, with being an idle spectator, O God; hold not Thy peace and be not still, O God, that is, inactive while such great dangers were threatening.
Isaiah 42:14 ; Psalms 109:1 ; Psalms 109:2 ; Psalms 28:1 ; Psalms 35:22 ; Psalms 44:23 ; Psalms 50:3