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Psalms 83:1¹O God, do not be silent. Do not ignore us. Do not be inactive, O God.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 28:1 Ps 35:22 Ps 50:3 Isa 42:14 Ps 109:1-2 Ps 44:23

Psalms 83:2²For look, your enemies are making a commotion; those who hate you are hostile.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 81:15 Matt 27:24 Isa 17:12 Jer 1:19 Judg 8:28 2 Kgs 19:28 Acts 16:22 Acts 17:5 Acts 19:28-41 Acts 21:30

Psalms 83:3³They carefully plot against your people, and make plans to harm the ones you cherish.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 64:2 Ps 27:5 Ps 31:20 Isa 7:6-7 Luke 20:20-23 Ps 10:9 Ps 91:1 Ps 56:6 1 Sam 13:19 Col 3:3

Psalms 83:4⁴They say, “Come on, let’s annihilate them so they are no longer a nation. Then the name of Israel will be remembered no more.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 11:19 Jer 48:2 Ps 74:8 Esth 3:6-9 Acts 9:1-2 Dan 7:25 Exod 1:10 Jer 31:36 Matt 27:62-66 Prov 1:12

Psalms 83:5⁵Yes, they devise a unified strategy; they form an alliance against you.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 2:2 Rev 17:13 Isa 8:9-10 Rev 19:19 2 Sam 10:6-8 Isa 7:2 Isa 7:5-7 John 11:47-53 Josh 10:3-5 Prov 21:30

Psalms 83:6⁶It includes the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Chr 5:10 2 Chr 20:1 2 Chr 20:10-11 Ps 137:7 1 Chr 5:19-20 Gen 25:12-18

Psalms 83:7⁷Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia and the inhabitants of Tyre.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Josh 13:5 Ezek 27:3 Ezek 27:9 1 Sam 15:2 1 Sam 4:1 Amos 1:9

Psalms 83:8⁸Even Assyria has allied with them, lending its strength to the descendants of Lot. (Selah)Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 2:9 2 Kgs 15:19 Gen 10:11 Gen 19:37-38 Gen 25:3 Isa 33:2

Psalms 83:9⁹Do to them as you did to Midian — as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 9:4 Judg 4:15-24 Judg 5:21 Isa 10:26 Judg 4:7 Judg 7:1-25 Num 31:7-8

Psalms 83:10¹⁰They were destroyed at Endor; their corpses were like manure on the ground.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Zeph 1:17 1 Sam 28:7 Josh 17:11 2 Kgs 9:37 Jer 16:4 Jer 8:2

Psalms 83:11¹¹Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, and all their rulers like Zebah and Zalmunna,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Judg 7:25 Judg 8:12-21

Psalms 83:12¹²who said, “Let’s take over the pastures of God.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Chr 20:11 Ps 74:7-8 Ps 83:4

Psalms 83:13¹³O my God, make them like dead thistles, like dead weeds blown away by the wind.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 21:18 Ps 35:5 Isa 40:24 Jer 13:24 Job 13:25 Ps 74:11-12 Exod 15:7 Isa 17:12-14 Isa 41:2 Matt 3:12

Psalms 83:14¹⁴Like the fire that burns down the forest, or the flames that consume the mountainsides,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 32:22 Mal 4:1 Isa 9:18 Ezek 20:47-48 Isa 30:33 Isa 33:11-12 Isa 64:1-2 Nah 1:10 Nah 1:6

Psalms 83:15¹⁵chase them with your gale winds, and terrify them with your windstorm.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 9:17 Ps 50:3 Isa 28:17 Ps 58:9 Heb 12:18 Job 27:20-23 Matt 7:27 Ps 11:6 Ezek 13:11-14 Isa 30:30

Psalms 83:16¹⁶Cover their faces with shame, so they might seek you, O Lord.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 6:10 Ps 9:19-20 Job 10:15 Ps 109:29 Ps 132:18 Ps 34:5

Psalms 83:17¹⁷May they be humiliated and continually terrified. May they die in shame.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 35:4 Ps 109:29 Ps 35:26 Ps 40:14-15

Psalms 83:18¹⁸Then they will know that you alone are the Lord, the Most High over all the earth.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 6:3 Ps 59:13 2 Kgs 19:19 Ezek 38:23 Jer 16:21 Ps 97:9 Dan 4:32 Ezek 30:19 Isa 42:8 1 Kgs 18:37

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