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King James Version

Psalms 83:16

Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O Lord .

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Judgments;   Prayer;   Seekers;   The Topic Concordance - Enemies;   Hate;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Seeking God;  

Dictionaries:

- Fausset Bible Dictionary - Excommunication;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Asaph;   Oreb and Zeeb;   Priests and Levites;   Psalms;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;  

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek your name, O Lord .
Geneva Bible (1587)
Fill their faces with shame, that they may seeke thy Name, O Lord.
Christian Standard Bible®
Cover their faces with shameso that they will seek your name, Lord.
Hebrew Names Version
Fill their faces with confusion, That they may seek your name, LORD.
Easy-to-Read Version
Lord , cover them with shame until they come to you for help.
Amplified Bible
Fill their faces with shame and disgrace, That they may [persistently] seek Your name, O LORD.
American Standard Version
Fill their faces with confusion, That they may seek thy name, O Jehovah.
Contemporary English Version
Make them blush with shame, until they turn and worship you, our Lord .
Complete Jewish Bible
drive them away with your storm, terrify them with your tempest.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
So pursue them with Thy tempest, and affright them with Thy storm.
King James Version (1611)
Fill their faces with shame: that they may seeke thy name, O Lord.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Fill their faces with dishonour; so shall they seek thy name, O Lord.
English Revised Version
Fill their faces with confusion; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.
Berean Standard Bible
Cover their faces with shame, that they may seek Your name, O LORD.
Lexham English Bible
Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek your name, O Yahweh.
Literal Translation
Fill their faces with shame and they will seek Your name, O Jehovah.
New Century Version
Cover them with shame. Then people will look for you, Lord .
New English Translation
Cover their faces with shame, so they might seek you, O Lord .
New King James Version
Fill their faces with shame, That they may seek Your name, O LORD.
New Living Translation
Utterly disgrace them until they submit to your name, O Lord .
New Life Bible
Fill their faces with shame, so they will look to Your name, O Lord.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Fill thou their faces with dishonour, That men may seek thy Name, O Yahweh;
Douay-Rheims Bible
(82-17) Fill their faces with shame; and they shall seek thy name, O Lord.
George Lamsa Translation
Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek thy name, O LORD.
Good News Translation
Cover their faces with shame, O Lord , and make them acknowledge your power.
New American Standard Bible
Fill their faces with dishonor, So that they will seek Your name, LORD.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Make shame to appeare in their faces: that they may seeke thy name O God.
New Revised Standard
Fill their faces with shame, so that they may seek your name, O Lord .
Darby Translation
Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek thy name, O Jehovah.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Lord, fille thou the faces of hem with schenschipe; and thei schulen seke thi name.
Young's Literal Translation
Fill their faces [with] shame, And they seek Thy name, O Jehovah.
World English Bible
Fill their faces with confusion, That they may seek your name, Yahweh.
Revised Standard Version
Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek thy name, O LORD.
Update Bible Version
Fill their faces with confusion, That they may seek your name, O Yahweh.
Webster's Bible Translation
Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.
Bible in Basic English
Let their faces be full of shame; so that they may give honour to your name, O Lord.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Make their faces ashamed (o LORDE) yt they maye seke thy name.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Fill their faces with dishonor, That they may seek Your name, O Lord .
Legacy Standard Bible
Fill their faces with disgrace,That they may seek Your name, O Yahweh.

Contextual Overview

9 Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison: 10 Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth. 11 Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna: 12 Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession. 13 O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind. 14 As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire; 15 So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm. 16 Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O Lord . 17 Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish: 18 That men may know that thou, whose name alone is Jehovah , art the most high over all the earth.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Psalms 6:10, Psalms 9:19, Psalms 9:20, Psalms 34:5

Reciprocal: Job 11:3 - make thee Psalms 31:17 - wicked Psalms 53:5 - thou hast Hosea 5:15 - in their 2 Thessalonians 3:14 - that he

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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" o; 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 confounded and ashamed:

that they may seek thy name, O Lord; not they themselves, who are filled with shame; for it is imprecated, that they be ashamed, and troubled for ever, and so as to perish, Psalms 83:17 but others; for the words may be supplied, as in Psalms 83:18 "that men may seek thy name, or that thy name may be sought": the judgments of God upon wicked men are sometimes the means of arousing others, and putting them upon seeking the Lord, his face, and his favour; that God would be merciful to them, pardon their iniquities, avert judgments from them, and preserve them from threatened calamities; and this is a good end, when answered; see

Isaiah 26:9.

o קלון Heb. "levitate", Piscator; so Ainsworth.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Fill their faces with shame - As those who are disappointed and foiled in their plans - such disappointment and confusion commonly manifesting itself in the face. The prayer here is, that their enemies might be so baffled in their designs - that they might be made so to feel how vain and hopeless were all their plans - that there might be such a manifest interposition of God in the case, as that they should be led to see that Yahweh reigned; that it was in vain to contend with him, and that his people were under his protection.

That they may seek thy name, O Lord - That they may be led to seek thee. This explains the drift and design of the whole prayer in the psalm. It is not a malignant prayer for the destruction of their enemies; it is not a wish that they might be made to suffer; but it is a prayer that the divine dealing might be such as to lead them to the acknowledgment of the true God. It is a benevolent thing to desire that men may be brought to the knowledge of the true God, though it be through the discomfiture of their own plans, by defeat, or by suffering. Anything that leads people to an acquaintance with God, and results in securing his friendship and favor, is a gain, and will be cause of thankfulness in the end.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 83:16. That they may seek thy name — Let them be confounded in all their attempts on Israel; and see, so manifestly, that thou hast done it, that they may invoke thy name, and be converted to thee.


 
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