Psalms 83:3
With cunning they scheme against Your people and conspire against those You cherish,
BSB
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.
1834–1892
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.
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.
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 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.
leads to
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 independent paths from here.
The name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe.
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.
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
You are my hiding place and my shield; I put my hope in Your word.
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.
leads to
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 independent paths from here.
You are my hiding place. You protect me from trouble; You surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.