Psalms 83:1
O God, be not silent; be not speechless; be not still, O God.
BSB
ASV
O God, keep not thou silence: Hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
KJV
Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
Keep not thou silence, O God. Man is clamorous, be not thou speechless. He rails and reviles, wilt not thou reply? On word of thine can deliver thy people; therefore, O Lord, break thy quiet and let thy voice be heard. Hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God. Here the appeal is to El., the Mighty One. He is entreated to act and speak, because his nation suffers and is in great jeopardy.
"Lord," says he, "they are thy enemies, and they hate thee." All wicked people are God's enemies (the carnal mind is enmity against God ), but especially wicked persecutors; they hated the religious worshippers of God, because they hated God's holy religion and the worship of him.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Psalms 28:1To You, O LORD, I call; be not deaf to me, O my Rock. For if You remain silent, I will be like those descending to the Pit.
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Answer me quickly, O LORD; my spirit fails. Do not hide Your face from me, or I will be like those who descend to the Pit.
The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer. My God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
I am counted among those descending to the Pit. I am like a man without strength.
let us swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole like those descending into the Pit.
Trust in the LORD forever, because GOD the LORD is the Rock eternal.
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Psalms 35:22O LORD, You have seen it; be not silent. O Lord, be not far from me.
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The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the affliction of My people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I am aware of their sufferings.
Why, O LORD, do You stand far off? Why do You hide in times of trouble?
To You, O LORD, I call; be not deaf to me, O my Rock. For if You remain silent, I will be like those descending to the Pit.