See how Your enemies rage, how Your foes have reared their heads.
This psalm was written when King Jehoshaphat faced a dreadful confederacy of enemies, not only Ammonites and Moabites, but forces mustered from Syria and distant lands that nearly overwhelmed Judah. The poet enumerates these many nations to show how urgent the prayer for God's aid must be, and to stir us to greater confidence that He will defend His Church against all who conspire to extinguish it.
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Commenting on Psalm 83:1-18
For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult. They are by no means sparing of their words, they are like a hungry pack of dogs, all giving tongue at once. So sure are they of devouring thy people that they already shout over the feast. And they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
When God seems to hold His silence and sit by unmoved, His people have leave to cry out, Lord, speak for us by providence and against our enemies; speak deliverance to us and disappointment to them. With Him saying and doing are the same thing.
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Commenting on Psalm 83:1-8