--- title: "Psalms 83 - Study King James Bible with calvins commentary on the bible" description: "Read Psalms 83 with calvins commentary on the bible commentary. 1 Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God. 2 For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted u" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/calvins-commentary-on-the-bible/psalms/83" --- [ Read](/kjv/psalms/83)[ Commentary](/study/psalms/83)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/psalms/83) Audio 1 Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.* 2 For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head. 3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones. 4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from *being* a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. 5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:* 6 The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes; 7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre; 8 Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.* 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. [Psalms 82](/study/psalms/82) [Psalms 84](/study/psalms/84) ## Commentary To verse 1 **1***O God! hold not thy peace.* It is very generally agreed among commentators, that this psalm was composed during the reign of king Jehoshaphat; and in this opinion I readily concur. That godly king, as is well known, had to engage in dreadful wars against multiplied hosts of enemies. Although the Ammonites and Moabites were the originators of the principal war in which he was engaged, yet they mustered forces not only from Syria, but also from distant countries, and the troops thus brought together well nigh overwhelmed Judea with their multitude. It would then appear, from the long list of enemies, here enumerated, who had conspired together to destroy the people of God, that the conjecture is well-founded which refers the composition of this psalm to that occasion; (430) and sacred history informs us, that one of the Levites, under the influence of the Spirit of prophecy, gave the king assurance of victory, (431) and that the Levites sang before the Lord. In the midst of so great dangers, the whole nation, as well as the holy king, must have been involved in the deepest distress; and, accordingly, we have here a prayer full of earnestness and solicitude. These feelings prompted the repetition of the words which occur in the very opening of the psalm, *Hold not thy peace, Keep not silence, be not still* By this, the faithful would intimate, that if God intended to succor them, it behoved him to make haste, else the opportunity for doing so would be lost. It is unquestionably our duty to wait patiently when God at any time delays his help; but, in condescension to our infirmity, he permits us to supplicate him to make haste. What I have rendered, *keep not silence with thyself,* is literally *keep not silence to thyself,* which some translate by the paraphrase, *Hold not thy peace in thy own cause,* — an exposition which is too refined to be more particularly noticed. This form of expression is equivalent to saying, *Hold not thyself in.* Perhaps the particle is here superfluous, as it is in many other places. (430) Compare the 6th, 7th, and 8th verses of the psalm with [2 Chronicles 20:1](/kjv/2-chronicles/20/1); and the 12th verse of the psalm with [2 Chronicles 11:0](/kjv/2-chronicles/11/0) verse of that chapter. (431) The name of this Levite was Jahaziel, and he is expressly said to be a prophet of the race of Asaph, [2 Chronicles 20:14](/kjv/2-chronicles/20/14). 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