Psalm 83:4
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New International Version (©2011)
"Come," they say, "let us destroy them as a nation, so that Israel's name is remembered no more."

New Living Translation (©2007)
"Come," they say, "let us wipe out Israel as a nation. We will destroy the very memory of its existence."

English Standard Version (©2001)
They say, “Come, let us wipe them out as a nation; let the name of Israel be remembered no more!”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
They have said, "Come, and let us wipe them out as a nation, That the name of Israel be remembered no more."

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
They say, "Come, let us wipe them out as a nation so that Israel's name will no longer be remembered."

International Standard Version (©2012)
They say, "Let us go and erase them as a nation so the name of Israel will not be remembered anymore."

NET Bible (©2006)
They say, "Come on, let's annihilate them so they are no longer a nation! Then the name of Israel will be remembered no more."

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
And they said, “Come, we will destroy them from the nation and the name of Israel will be remembered no more!”

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
They say, "Let's wipe out their nation so that the name of Israel will no longer be remembered."

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
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.

American King James Version
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.

American Standard Version
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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They have said: Come and let us destroy them, so that they be not a nation: and let the name of Israel be remembered no more.

Darby Bible Translation
They say, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, and let the name of Israel be mentioned no more.

English Revised Version
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.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

World English Bible
"Come," they say, "and let's destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more."

Young's Literal Translation
They have said, 'Come, And we cut them off from being a nation, And the name of Israel is not remembered any more.'

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

83:1-8 Sometimes God seems not to be concerned at the unjust treatment of his people. But then we may call upon him, as the psalmist here. All wicked people are God's enemies, especially wicked persecutors. The Lord's people are his hidden one; the world knows them not. He takes them under his special protection. Do the enemies of the church act with one consent to destroy it, and shall not the friends of the church be united? Wicked men wish that there might be no religion among mankind. They would gladly see all its restraints shaken off, and all that preach, profess, or practise it, cut off. This they would bring to pass if it were in their power. The enemies of God's church have always been many: this magnifies the power of the Lord in preserving to himself a church in the world.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 4. - They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation. This was the general object of Israel's enemies at all times (2 Kings 24:2; 2 Chronicles 20:11; Psalm 138:7; 1 Macc. 3:35 1 Macc. 5:2), and thus does not help much towards determining the date of the occasion here spoken cf. That the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance (comp. Exodus 17:14; Deuteronomy 32:26; Psalm 34:16; Psalm 109:13).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

They have said,.... Secretly in their hearts, or openly to one another, and gave it out in the most public manner, as what they had consulted and determined upon; see Psalm 74:8,

come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; they were not content to invade their country, take their cities, plunder them of their substance, and carry them captives, but utterly to destroy them, root and branch; so that they might be no more a body politic, under rule and government, in their own land, nor have so much as a name and place in others; this was Haman's scheme, Esther 3:8.

that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance; but this desperate and dreadful scheme, and wretched design of theirs, took not effect; but, on the contrary, the several nations hereafter mentioned, who were in this conspiracy, are no more, and have not had a name in the world for many hundreds of years; while the Jews are still a people, and are preserved, in order to be called and saved, as all Israel will be in the latter day, Romans 11:25. So Dioclesian thought to have rooted the Christian name out of the world; but in vain: the name of Christ, the name of Christianity, the name of a Christian church, will endure to the end of the world; see Psalm 72:17. Compare with this Jeremiah 11:19.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

4. from being a nation—utter destruction (Isa 7:8; 23:1).

Israel—here used for Judah, having been the common name.

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God, Don't Keep Silent
…3They have taken crafty counsel against your people, and consulted against your hidden ones. 4They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. 5For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against you: …

Esther 3:6 Yet having learned who Mordecai's people were, he scorned the idea of killing only Mordecai. Instead Haman looked for a way to destroy all Mordecai's people, the Jews, throughout the whole kingdom of Xerxes.
Psalm 41:5 My enemies say of me in malice, "When will he die and his name perish?"
Psalm 74:8 They said in their hearts, "We will crush them completely!" They burned every place where God was worshiped in the land.
Psalm 137:7 Remember, LORD, what the Edomites did on the day Jerusalem fell. "Tear it down," they cried, "tear it down to its foundations!"
Jeremiah 11:19 I had been like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter; I did not realize that they had plotted against me, saying, "Let us destroy the tree and its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name be remembered no more."
Jeremiah 33:24 "Have you not noticed that these people are saying, 'The LORD has rejected the two kingdoms he chose'? So they despise my people and no longer regard them as a nation.
Jeremiah 48:2 Moab will be praised no more; in Heshbon people will plot her downfall: 'Come, let us put an end to that nation.' You, the people of Madmen, will also be silenced; the sword will pursue you.
Jeremiah 48:42 Moab will be destroyed as a nation because she defied the LORD.
Ezekiel 35:10 "'Because you have said, "These two nations and countries will be ours and we will take possession of them," even though I the LORD was there,