Psalms 83:3
in Psalms 83With cunning they scheme against Your people and conspire against those You cherish,
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ASV
They take crafty counsel against thy people, And consult together against thy hidden ones.
KJV
They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.
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This verse in Psalms 83
Commentary
5 notes on this verseA commentator
Charles Spurgeon1834–1892
The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 2367: “God's Hidden Ones” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) · Written before 1892.
IT was the desire of Asaph to obtain for his nation help from God. Israel was exposed to great danger—ten confederate nations had conspired, with desperate hate, to assail the chosen people. They were determined to root out the very name of Israel from among the nations! They joined together in a wicked league for this purpose and they came from all quarters—north, south, east and west—in order to utterly devour the little insignificant people whom God had called His own.
This site's exposition
They have taken crafty counsel against thy people
on Psalms 83:3-4
The plot is stated in its own words, come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance, a plan not for territory or tribute but for the erasure of the people entirely. Against thy hidden ones names Israel as those God himself shelters, so the plot to destroy the nation is aimed, in the psalm's own logic, at what God has hidden and claimed for his own. Gill reads the verse as the clearest statement in the Psalter of intent to destroy a whole people, named for what it is.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
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.
The subtlety of the old serpent appears in their management, and they contrive by all possible means, though ever so base, ever so bad, to gain their point. They are profound to make slaughter ( Hos. v. 2 ), as if they could outwit Infinite Wisdom.
"Lord," says the psalmist, "they are thy enemies, for they consult against thy hidden ones." Note, God's people are his hidden ones, hidden, (1.) In respect of secresy. Their life is hid with Christ in God; the world knows them not; if they knew them, they would not hate them as they do.
The words behind it
7 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| עַֽל־ | ʾal- | on | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| עַ֭מְּךָ | ʾamekha | people your | H5971 → | 1873 times |
| יַעֲרִ֣ימוּ | yaarimu | they make crafty | H6191 → | |
| ס֑וֹד | sod | counsel | H5475 → | 21 times |
| וְ֝יִתְיָעֲצ֗וּ | veyityaatzu | so they may consult together | H3289 → | 79 times |
| עַל־ | ʾal- | on | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| צְפוּנֶֽיךָ׃ | tzefuneikha | treasured [ones] your | H6845 → | 32 times |
עַֽל־on
ʾal-H5921 →5755 times
עַ֭מְּךָpeople your
ʾamekhaH5971 →1873 times
יַעֲרִ֣ימוּthey make crafty
yaarimuH6191 →
ס֑וֹדcounsel
sodH5475 →21 times
וְ֝יִתְיָעֲצ֗וּso they may consult together
veyityaatzuH3289 →79 times
עַל־on
ʾal-H5921 →5755 times
צְפוּנֶֽיךָ׃treasured [ones] your
tzefuneikhaH6845 →32 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Psalms 27:5For in the day of trouble He will hide me in His shelter; He will conceal me under the cover of His tent; He will set me high upon a rock.
it leads to
- Psalms 31:20
You hide them in the secret place of Your presence from the schemes of men. You conceal them in Your shelter from accusing tongues.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Proverbs 18:10
The name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe.
- Psalms 138:7
If I walk in the midst of trouble, You preserve me from the anger of my foes; You extend Your hand, and Your right hand saves me.
- Psalms 91:1
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
- Psalms 119:114
You are my hiding place and my shield; I put my hope in Your word.
- Psalms 31:20
Through
Psalms 31:20You hide them in the secret place of Your presence from the schemes of men. You conceal them in Your shelter from accusing tongues.
it leads to
- Psalms 27:5
For in the day of trouble He will hide me in His shelter; He will conceal me under the cover of His tent; He will set me high upon a rock.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Psalms 32:7
You are my hiding place. You protect me from trouble; You surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah
- Psalms 91:1–4
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
- Psalms 27:5
About Psalms
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Book of Psalms; Charles Spurgeon, The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 2367: “God's Hidden Ones” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.