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Commentaries on Psalms 83:17

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John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

INTRODUCTION TO Psalms 83 A Song [or] Psalm of Asaph. This is the last of the psalms that bear the name of Asaph, and some think it was written by him on occasion of David's smiting the Philistines, Moabites, Syrians, Edomites, and others, 2 Samuel 8:1, but these did not conjunctly, but separately, fight with David, and were overcome by him; whereas those this psalm makes mention of were in a...

John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

Let them be confounded and troubled for ever,.... As long as they are in this world, and to all eternity in another; a dreadful portion this: yea, let them be put to shame, and perish; wholly and eternally, in soul and body, for evermore.

Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry

This psalm is the last of those that go under the name of Asaph. It is penned, as most of those, upon a public account, with reference to the insults of the church's enemies, who sought its ruin. Some think it was penned upon occasion of the threatening descent which was made upon the land of Judah in Jehoshaphat's time by the Moabites and Ammonites, those children of Lot here spoken of (ver. 8),...

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions

Charles H. Spurgeon

Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; Or rather, “They shall be confounded and troubled for ever.” That is an awful passage, “Confounded and troubled for ever.”

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions

Charles H. Spurgeon

Yea, let them be put to shame, and perish: that men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth. You notice that, when I read the Scriptures, wherever I find the word LORD in capital letters, I read it as Jehovah, for so it should be. I wish that the translators of the Revised Version had had the courage of their convictions, and had so translated it, for...