Salmos 83:1

Almeida Revista e Corrigida

Deus, no estejas em silncio! No cerres os ouvidos nem fiques impassvel, Deus!

Parallel Translations

A Biblia Sagrada
<Cntico e salmo de Asafe> O Deus, no estejas em silncio; no te cales, nem te aquietes, Deus,

Almeida Revista e Atualizada
Deus, no te cales; no te emudeas, nem fiques inativo, Deus!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

of Asaph: or, for Asaph

Keep: Psalms 28:1, Psalms 35:22, Psalms 44:23, Psalms 50:3, Psalms 109:1, Psalms 109:2

be not: Isaiah 42:14

Reciprocal: Exodus 14:14 - hold Joshua 11:1 - he sent Judges 8:21 - slew 1 Chronicles 6:39 - Asaph 1 Chronicles 15:17 - Asaph 1 Chronicles 25:2 - Asaph Nehemiah 12:46 - and Asaph Psalms 44:7 - put them Isaiah 64:12 - General Jeremiah 50:11 - ye destroyers Daniel 6:7 - have consulted Habakkuk 1:13 - holdest

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Keep not thou silence, O God,.... Which he is thought and said to do, when he does not answer the prayers of his people, nor plead their cause, nor rebuke their enemies; when he does not speak a good word to them, or one for them, or one against those that hate and persecute them;

hold not thy peace; or "be not deaf" b to the cries and tears of his people, and to the reproaches, menaces, and blasphemies of wicked men:

and be not still, O God; or "quiet" c, at rest and ease, inactive and unconcerned, as if he cared not how things went; the reason follows.

b אל-תחרש "ne obsurdescas", Vatablus; "ne surdum agas", Junius Tremellius, Piscator "ne quasi surdus et mutus sis", Michaelis. c אל תשקט "ne quiescas", Pagninus, Montanus, Musculus, Junius Tremellius, Piscator, Gejerus "neque quietus sis", Michaelis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Keep not thou silence, O God - See the notes at Psalms 28:1. The prayer here is that in the existing emergency God would not seem to be indifferent to the needs and dangers of his people, and to the purposes of their enemies, but that he would speak with a voice of command, and break up their designs.

Hold not thy peace - That is, Speak. Give commaud. Disperse them by thine own authority.

And be not still, O God - Awake; arouse; be not indifferent to the needs and dangers of thy people. All this is the language of petition; not of command. Its rapidity, its repetition, its tone, all denote that the danger was imminent, and that the necessity for the divine interposition was urgent.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

PSALM LXXXIII

The psalmist calls upon God for immediate help against a

multitude of confederate enemies who had risen up against

Judah, 1-5.

He mentions them by name, 6-8;

shows how they were to be punished, 9-17;

and that this was to be done for the glory of God, 18.

NOTES ON PSALM LXXXIII

The title, A Song or Psalm of Asaph, contains nothing particular. Among a multitude of conjectures relative to the time and occasion of this Psalm, that which refers it to the confederacy against Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, mentioned 2 Chronicles 20:1-30, is the most likely. The following reasons make it probable:

1. The children of Ammon, that is, the Ammonites and Moabites, were the principal movers in the war.

2. The Idumeans came to their assistance, 2 Chronicles 20:22; with certain Ammonites or Meonians, referred to here in Psalms 83:8, and in 2 Chronicles 20:1.

3. There were also in this confederacy many strangers of Syria, and from beyond the sea, most likely the Dead Sea, which seems to indicate the Assyrians, Hagaranes, and Ishmaelites, designed expressly here, Psalms 83:7-8.

4. In that transaction there was a prophet of the race of Asaph, named Jahaziel, who foretold to Jehoshaphat their total overthrow, 2 Chronicles 20:14, &c., and probably this Jahaziel is the same with Asaph, the author of this Psalm.

In the course of the notes we shall see other circumstances relative to the war of the Moabites and Ammonites against Jehoshaphat, which illustrates several particulars in this Psalm. See Calmet.

Verse Psalms 83:1. Keep not thou silence — A strong appeal to God just as the confederacy was discovered. Do not be inactive, do not be neuter. Thy honour and our existence are both at stake.