Psalms 83:12
who said, “Let us possess for ourselves the pastures of God.”
BSB
ASV
Who said, Let us take to ourselves in possession The habitations of God.
KJV
Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.
Who said: Let us possess the sanctuary of God by inheritance. They said it, but they did not accomplish it: for the Lord was fighting for his people.
This, in the singing of it, we may apply to the enemies of the gospel-church, all anti-christian powers and factions, representing to God their confederacies against Christ and his kingdom, and rejoicing in the hope that all their projects will be baffled and the gates of hell shall not prevail against the church.
Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession. Viewing the temple, and also the dwellings of the tribes, as all belonging to God, these greedy plunderers determined to push out the inhabitants, slay them, and become themselves landlords and tenants of the whole. These were large words and dark designs, but God could bring them all to nothing. It is in vain for men to say "Let us take, "if God does not give.
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Psalms 83:4saying, “Come, let us erase them as a nation; may the name of Israel be remembered no more.”
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There is no longer praise for Moab; in Heshbon they devise evil against her: ‘Come, let us cut her off from nationhood.’ You too, O people of Madmen, will be silenced; the sword will…
For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from…
And when he learned the identity of Mordecai’s people, he scorned the notion of laying hands on Mordecai alone. Instead, he sought to destroy all of Mordecai’s people, the Jews, throughout the kingdom of…
They said in their hearts, “We will crush them completely.” They burned down every place where God met us in the land.
Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the disciples of the Lord. He approached the high priest
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2 Chronicles 20:11See how they are repaying us by coming to drive us out of the possession that You gave us as an inheritance.
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With cunning they scheme against Your people and conspire against those You cherish,
They had not gone far from the city when Joseph told his steward, “Pursue the men at once, and when you overtake them, ask, ‘Why have you repaid good with evil?
Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before You to speak good on their behalf, to turn Your wrath from them.