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Psalm 83:16-18
New Catholic Bible
Psalm 83:16-18
New Catholic Bible
16 so hound them with your tempests
and terrify them with your stormwinds.[a]
17 Fill their faces with shame
so that they will seek your name,[b] O Lord.
18 [c]Let them be humiliated and terrified forever;
let them be disgraced and perish.
Footnotes
- Psalm 83:16 Tempests . . . stormwinds: for God in the thunderstorm, see Pss 18:8-16; 68:34; 77:18f; Ex 15:7-10; Jos 10:11; Jdg 5:4, 20f; 1 Sam 2:10; 7:10; Isa 29:5f; 33:3. See also note on Ps 68:5.
- Psalm 83:17 They will seek your name: the psalmist prays that God will humiliate the enemies and lead men to seek his name, i.e., realize and accept that the Lord alone is God (see v. 19).
- Psalm 83:18 The Chronicler (2 Chr 20:22-29) records the defeat of the alliance and mentions that all the nations were terrified when they learned that the Lord fought on the side of the Israelites. This is precisely what the psalmist asks so that his people will be saved and the Lord will be praised by the whole world.
