Psalms 83:17

Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
confounded	יֵבֹ֖שׁוּ ye.Vo.shu	H954	properly · verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural
troubled	וְיִבָּהֲל֥וּ ve.yi.ba.ha.Lu	H926	to tremble inwardly (or palpitate) · conjunction + verb, niphal, 3rd person masculine plural
ever	עֲדֵי 'a.dei-	H5703	properly · noun, common masculine plural construct
shame	וְֽיַחְפְּר֥וּ ve.yach.pe.Ru	H2659	to blush · conjunction + verb, qal, 3rd person masculine plural
perish	וְיֹאבֵֽדוּ ve.yo.Ve.du	H6	properly · conjunction + verb, qal, 3rd person masculine plural

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Cross-references

Psalms 35:4 Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.
Psalms 35:26 Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify t…
Psalms 40:14-15 Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them be driven backward and put to shame that wish me…
Psalms 109:29 Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 83:9–end

The psalmist here, in the name of the church, prays for the destruction of those confederate forces, and, in God's name, foretels it; for this prayer that it might be so amounts to a prophecy that it shall be so, and this prophecy reaches to all the enemies of the gospel-church; whoever they be that oppose the kingdom of Christ, here they may read their doom. The prayer is, in short, that these enemies, who were confederate against Israel, might be defeated in all their attempts, and that they might prove their own ruin, and so God's Israel might be preserved and perpetuated. Now this is here illustrated, I. By some precedents. Let that be their punishment which has been the fate of others w…

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John Gill on Psalms 83:17

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.

John Calvin on Psalms 83:13–end

Psalm 83:13-18 13. O my God! make them like a whirling ball, [447] like stubble before the wind. 14. As fire burns a forest [448] and as the flame kindles the mountains, [449] 15. So pursue them with thy tempest, [450] and terrify them with thy whirlwind. 16. Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O Jehovah! 17. Let them be ashamed, and terrified perpetually, and let them be confounded, and perish. 18. And let them know that thou art, thy name Jehovah, thou alone the Most High over all the earth. [451] 13. O my God! make them like a whirling ball. As the ungodly, when they gird and prepare themselves for destroying the Church, are usually inflated with intolerable pride,…

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Keil & Delitzsch on Psalms 83:17–end

The aim of the wish is that they in the midst of their downfall may lay hold upon the mercy of Jahve as their only deliverance: first they must come to nought, and only by giving Jahve the glory will they not be utterly destroyed. Side by side with אתּה, v. 19a, is placed שׁמך as a second subject (cf. Psa 44:3; Psa 69:11). In view of Psa 83:17 וידעוּ (as in Psa 59:14) has not merely the sense of perceiving so far as the justice of the punishment is concerned; the knowledge which is unto salvation is not excluded. The end of the matter which the poet wishes to see brought about is this, that Jahve, that the God of revelation (שׁמך), may become the All-exalted One in the consciousness of the n…

The Church Fathers

Finally, in what follows also, see what he says. Let them be ashamed and troubled for ever and ever, and let them be confounded and perish. Let them perish according to that which is evil in them, and let that which is good be saved. Finally, see that "perdition" here does not signify abolition, but salvation.
— Jerome, Homily 15, on Psalm 82

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Psalms 83:17

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 83:9–end

John Gill on Psalms 83:17

John Calvin on Psalms 83:13–end

Keil & Delitzsch on Psalms 83:17–end

The Church Fathers

Psalms 83:17

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 83:9–end

John Gill on Psalms 83:17

John Calvin on Psalms 83:13–end

Keil & Delitzsch on Psalms 83:17–end

The Church Fathers

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Psalms 83:14-15

Spurgeon's Treasury of David on Psalms 83:17