Psalm 83:13-18 ESV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 83:9-18

The psalmist here, in the name of the church, prays for the destruction of those confederate forces, and, in God's name, foretels it; for this prayer that it might be so amounts to a prophecy that it shall be so, and this prophecy reaches to all the enemies of the gospel-church; whoever they be that oppose the kingdom of Christ, here they may read their doom. The prayer is, in short, that these enemies, who were confederate against Israel, might be defeated in all their attempts, and that they... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 83:13

O my God, make them like a wheel ,.... Which, as the Targum adds, is rolled, and goes on, and rests not in a declivity; let them be as fickle and inconstant as a wheel; being in high, let them be in slippery places, and brought down to desolation in a moment; like a wheel set running down hill, so let them swiftly and suddenly come to ruin; or be in all kind of calamities, and continual troubles F11 "Vide Suidam in voce" τροχου . as the wheel is always turning: some think there is an... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 83:14

As the fire burneth the wood ,.... Or "forest" F13 יער "sylvam", Montanus, Tigurine version, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, &c.; ; which is sometimes done purposely, and sometimes through carelessness, as Virgil F14 Georgic. l. 2. v. 310. observes; and which is done very easily and swiftly, when fire is set to it; even all the trees of it, great and small, to which an army is sometimes compared, Isaiah 10:18 , and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire; either the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 83:15

So persecute them with thy tempest ,.... Pursue them with thy fury, follow them with thy vengeance; cause it to fall upon them like a mighty tempest: and make them afraid with thy storm ; God has his storms and tempests of wrath and vengeance, which he sometimes causes to fall upon wicked men in this life, to their inexpressible terror, and with which he takes them out of this world; and he has still more horrible ones to rain upon them hereafter: see Job 27:20 . read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 83:16

Fill their faces with shame ,.... For their sins, or rather through disappointment, not being able to put their desperate and deep laid schemes into execution: or "with lightness" F15 קלון Heb. "levitate", Piscator; so Ainsworth. ; instead of a weight of honour and glory upon them, let them be despised. R. Joseph Kimchi renders it, "fill their faces with fire"; let their faces be as if they were on fire, as men's faces are, who are put to an exceeding great blush, or are most sadly... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 83:17

Let them be confounded and troubled for ever ,.... As long as they are in this world, and to all eternity in another; a dreadful portion this: yea, let them be put to shame, and perish ; wholly and eternally, in soul and body, for evermore. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 83:18

That men may know that thou, whose name alone is Jehovah ,.... Or, "that thou, thy name alone is Jehovah" F16 כי אתה שמך "quod nomen tuum", Pagninus, Montanus, Musculus. , a self-existent Being, the Being of beings, the everlasting I AM, the immutable God; for this name is expressive of the being, eternity, and unchangeableness of God, who is, and was, and is to come, invariably the same, Revelation 1:4 which is to be understood not to the exclusion of the Son or Spirit, who... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 83:13

O may God, make them like a wheel - Alluding to the manner of threshing corn in the east. A large broad wheel was rolled over the grain on a threshing-floor, which was generally in the open air; and the grain being thrown up by a shovel against the wind the chaff was thus separated from it, in the place where it was threshed. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 83:14

The flame setteth the mountains on fire - This may refer to the burning of the straw and chaff, after the grain was threshed and winnowed. And as their threshing-floors were situated often on the hills or mountains, to take the advantage of the wind, the setting the mountains on fire may refer to the burning of the chaff, etc., in those places. Let them be like stubble driven away by the wind, and burnt by the fire. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 83:15

So persecute them - In this and the two following verses we find several awful execrations; and all this seems to be done in reference to that ancient custom, "pouring execrations on an enemy previously to battle." Of this I have already given specimens in this work; and the reader is particularly requested to refer to the case of Balaam being hired by the king of Moab to curse Israel previously to his intended attack: see the note on Numbers 22:6 , where the subject is treated at large. ... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 83:9-18

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 83:13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 83:14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 83:15

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 83:16

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 83:17

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 83:18

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 83:13

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 83:14

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 83:15

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