the Week of Proper 20 / Ordinary 25
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Psalms 83:3
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They make shrewd plans against Your people,And conspire together against Your treasured ones.
They make shrewd plans against Your people, And conspire together against Your treasured ones.
They haue deuised shrewde counsell against thy people: and they haue consulted against thyne, whom thou defendest.
They take crafty counsel against thy people, and consult against thy hidden ones:
They have taken crafty counsel against Your people, And consulted together against Your sheltered ones.
They take shrewd counsel against Your people; they plot against Your hidden ones.
They are making secret plans against your people. Your enemies are discussing plans against the people you love.
They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones.
They haue taken craftie counsell against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.
They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.
They ymagin craftely agaynst thy people, & take councell agaynst thy secrete ones.
They concoct crafty schemes against Your people, And conspire together against Your hidden and precious ones.
They take crafty counsel against thy people, And consult together against thy hidden ones.
They have made wise designs against your people, talking together against those whom you keep in a secret place.
They take crafty counsel against your people, And consult together against your hidden ones.
They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.
They carefully plot against your people, and make plans to harm the ones you cherish.
They are sly, and they plot against those you treasure.
because here are your enemies, causing an uproar; those who hate you are raising their heads,
They haue taken craftie counsell against thy people, and haue consulted against thy secret ones.
They have taken crafty counsel, and consulted against thy chosen ones.
They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones.
For, lo, Thine enemies are in an uproar; and they that hate Thee have lifted up the head.
They make bad plans against Your people. They plan against those You care for.
Against thy people they have craftily imagined a device, and have taken counsel against thy saints.
They take crafty counsel against thy people, and consult together against thy hidden ones.
With cunning they scheme against Your people and conspire against those You cherish,
They lay crafty plans against your people; they consult together against those you protect.
Against thy people, they craftily devise a secret plot, And conspire against thy treasured ones.
(82-4) They have taken a malicious counsel against thy people, and have consulted against thy saints.
They devise cunning schemes against your people, and consult together against your protected ones.
They lay crafty plans against your people; they consult together against your treasured ones.
They make shrewd plans against Your people, And conspire together against Your treasured ones.
They are making secret plans against your people; they plot against those you love.
They are making secret plans against your people; they are plotting against those you protect.
They devise clever schemes against Your people; they conspire against Your treasured ones.
Thei maden a wickid counsel on thi puple; and thei thouyten ayens thi seyntis.
Against Thy people they take crafty counsel, And consult against Thy hidden ones.
They lay crafty plans against thy people; they consult together against thy protected ones.
Contextual Overview
A song. A psalm of Asaph.
O God, do not be silent! Do not be deaf. Do not be quiet, O God. 2 Don't you hear the uproar of your enemies? Don't you see that your arrogant enemies are rising up? 3 They devise crafty schemes against your people; they conspire against your precious ones. 4 "Come," they say, "let us wipe out Israel as a nation. We will destroy the very memory of its existence." 5 Yes, this was their unanimous decision. They signed a treaty as allies against you— 6 these Edomites and Ishmaelites; Moabites and Hagrites; 7 Gebalites, Ammonites, and Amalekites; and people from Philistia and Tyre. 8 Assyria has joined them, too, and is allied with the descendants of Lot. InterludeBible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
They: Psalms 10:9, Psalms 56:6, Psalms 64:2, 1 Samuel 13:19, Isaiah 7:6, Isaiah 7:7, Luke 20:20-23
thy hidden: Psalms 27:5, Psalms 31:20, Psalms 91:1, Colossians 3:3
Reciprocal: Exodus 1:10 - Come on 1 Kings 17:3 - hide thyself 2 Chronicles 20:11 - to cast us Nehemiah 4:8 - all Psalms 71:10 - take Isaiah 7:1 - Rezin Isaiah 7:5 - Syria Isaiah 8:10 - counsel Jeremiah 51:11 - the vengeance Lamentations 4:21 - be glad Ezekiel 25:10 - may Ezekiel 35:2 - and prophesy Ezekiel 38:10 - that at Amos 1:11 - because Matthew 2:7 - General
Gill's Notes on the Bible
They have taken crafty counsel against thy people,.... The people of Israel, hereafter named, whom God had chosen and avouched to be his people; these they dealt subtlety with, as the king of Egypt had done with their forefathers; and this, agreeably to their character, being the seed of the old serpent, more subtle than any of the beasts of the field; these devised cunning devices, formed crafty schemes for the destruction of the Lord's people; but often so it is, that the wise are taken in their own craftiness, and their counsel is carried headlong:
and consulted against thy hidden ones; not hidden from the Lord, and unknown unto him, though from their enemies, and unknown by them, and so the object of their hatred and persecution; but hidden by him as his jewels and peculiar treasure, which he takes care of; hidden under the shadow of his wings, in the secret of his presence and tabernacle, as in a pavilion; and therefore it was a daring piece of insolence in their enemies to attack them: so the life of saints is said to be hid with Christ in God, which denotes both its secrecy and safety; see Colossians 3:3, the Targum is,
"against the things hidden in thy treasures;''
meaning the riches of the temple.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
They have taken crafty counsel - The one word translated “have taken crafty” - ערם ‛âram - means properly to make naked; and then, to be crafty, cunning, malignant, 1 Samuel 23:22. It is well rendered here, they have taken crafty counsel. The meaning is, they have made their counsel or their consultations crafty, cunning, artful, malignant. Instead of pursuing a course in their deliberations that would be just, true, honorable, they have followed the reverse. On the word rendered “counsel” - סוד sôd - which means a couch or cushion, and hence, a divan - see Job 15:8, note; Psalms 25:14, note; Psalms 64:2, note. The idea here is, that the persons referred to in the subsequent part of the psalm (Psalms 83:6-8) had been assembled in a divan, or for consultation, and that they had there formed a malignant plan - against God and his people - which they were now proceeding to execute.
Against thy people - For the purpose of destroying them.
And consulted against thy hidden ones - The word rendered “hidden ones” - from the verb צפן tsâphan, to hide, to conceal - properly denotes that which is secret, private, inaccessible Ezekiel 7:22; and then, anything protected or hidden so as to be secure. Compare the notes at Psalms 27:5. It would seem here to refer to those who were so protected by Yahweh - so inaccessible to others by reason of his guardian care - that they would be safe.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 83:3. Consulted against thy hidden ones. — צפוניך tsephuneycha, Thy hidden things; places; persons. "The hidden things in thy treasures." - CHALDEE. "Thy holy ones." - SYRIAC. "Thy saints." - VULGATE and SEPTUAGINT; and so the AEthiopic and Arabic. The people of Israel are probably meant. Or perhaps the temple, the ark, and the treasures of the temple, are intended.
