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Psalm 83:2–5

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83:2For look, your enemies are making a commotion;

those who hate you are hostile.2

83:3They carefully plot3 against your people,

and make plans to harm4 the ones you cherish.5

83:4They say, “Come on, let’s annihilate them so they are no longer a nation!6

Then the name of Israel will be remembered no more.”

83:5Yes,7 they devise a unified strategy;8

they form an alliance9 against you.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Heb “lift up [their] head[s].” The phrase “lift up [the] head” here means “to threaten; to be hostile,” as in Judg 8:28.
  2. 3 Heb “they make crafty a plot.”
  3. 4 Heb “and consult together against.”
  4. 5 The passive participle of the Hebrew verb צָפַן (tsafan, “to hide”) is used here in the sense of “treasured; cherished.”
  5. 6 Heb “we will cause them to disappear from [being] a nation.”
  6. 7 Or “for.”
  7. 8 Heb “they consult [with] a heart together.”
  8. 9 Heb “cut a covenant.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

For behold, your enemies make an uproar;

those who hate you have raised their heads.

They lay crafty plans against your people;

they consult together against your treasured ones.

They say, “Come, let us wipe them out as a nation;

let the name of Israel be remembered no more!”

For they conspire with one accord;

against you they make a covenant—

NIVNew International Version (2011)

See how your enemies growl,

how your foes rear their heads.

With cunning they conspire against your people;

they plot against those you cherish.

“Come,” they say, “let us destroy them as a nation,

so that Israel’s name is remembered no more.”

With one mind they plot together;

they form an alliance against you—

CSBChristian Standard Bible

See how your enemies make an uproar;

those who hate you have acted arrogantly.

They devise clever schemes against your people;

they conspire against your treasured ones.

They say, “Come, lets wipe them out as a nation

so that Israel’s name will no longer be remembered.”

For they have conspired with one mind;

they form an alliance against you—

NLTNew Living Translation

Don’t you hear the uproar of your enemies?

Don’t you see that your arrogant enemies are rising up?

They devise crafty schemes against your people;

they conspire against your precious ones.

“Come,” they say, “let us wipe out Israel as a nation.

We will destroy the very memory of its existence.”

Yes, this was their unanimous decision.

They signed a treaty as allies against you—

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

For look, your enemies roar,

and those who hate you have lifted their head.

They devise cunning schemes against your people,

and consult together against your protected ones.

They say, “Come, let us annihilate them from being a nation,

so that the name of Israel will be remembered no more.”

For they have consulted together with a unified purpose.

They have made a covenant against you:

KJV 1900King James Version

For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult:

And they that hate thee have lifted up the head.

They have taken crafty counsel against thy people,

And consulted against thy hidden ones.

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.

For they have consulted together with one consent:

They are confederate against thee: