Psalm 83:2 {82:3}
Good News Translation
Look! Your enemies are in revolt, and those who hate you are rebelling.

New Revised Standard Version
Even now your enemies are in tumult; those who hate you have raised their heads.

Contemporary English Version
Your hateful enemies are turning against you and rebelling.

New American Bible
See how your enemies rage; your foes proudly raise their heads.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For lo, thy enemies have made a noise: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For lo, thy enemies have made a noise: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.

for, lo

Psalm 2:1,2 Why have the Gentiles raged, and the people devised vain things? . . .

Psalm 74:4,23 And they that hate thee have made their boasts, in the midst of thy solemnity. They have set up their ensigns for signs, . . .

2 Kings 19:28 Thou hast been mad against me, and thy pride hath come up to my ears: therefore I will put a ring in thy nose, and a bit between thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

Isaiah 37:29 When thou wast mad against me, thy pride came up to my ears: therefore I will put a ring in thy nose, and a bit between thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

Jeremiah 1:19 And they shall fight against them, and shall not prevail: for I am with thee, saith the Lord, to deliver thee.

Matthew 27:24 And Pilate seeing that he prevailed nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, taking water washed his hands before the people, saying: I am innocent of the blood of this just man. Look you to it.

Acts 4:25-27 Who, by the Holy Ghost, by the mouth of our father David, thy servant, hast said: Why did the Gentiles rage: and the people meditate vain things? . . .

Acts 16:22 And the people ran together against them: and the magistrates, rending off their clothes, commanded them to be beaten with rods.

Acts 17:5 But the Jews, moved with envy and taking unto them some wicked men of the vulgar sort and making a tumult, set the city in an uproar: and besetting Jason's house, sought to bring them out unto the people.

Acts 19:28 Having heard these things, they were full of anger and cried out, saying: Great is Diana of the Ephesians!

Acts 21:30 And he whole city was in an uproar: and the people ran together. And taking Paul, they drew him out of the temple: and immediately the doors were shut.

Acts 22:22 And they heard him until this word and then lifted up their voice, saying: Away with such an one from the earth. For it is not fit that he should live.

Acts 23:10 And when there arose a great dissension, the tribune, fearing lest Paul should be pulled in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and to take him by force from among them and to bring him into the castle.

that hate

Psalm 81:15 The enemies of the Lord have lied to him: and their time shall be for ever.

lifted

Psalm 75:4,5 I said to the wicked: Do not act wickedly: and to the sinners: Lift not up the horn. . . .

Psalm 93:3 The floods have lifted up, O Lord: the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods have lifted up their waves,

Isaiah 37:23 Whom hast thou reproached, and whom hast thou blasphemed, and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thy eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.

Daniel 5:20-23 But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit hardened unto pride, he was put down from the throne of his kingdom, and his glory was taken away. . . .

Context
Do Not Be Still, O God
1A canticle of a psalm for Asaph. [2] O God, who shall be like to thee? hold not thy peace, neither be thou still, O God. 2For lo, thy enemies have made a noise: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.3They have taken a malicious counsel against thy people, and have consulted against thy saints.…
Cross References
Judges 8:28
But Madian was humbled before the children of Israel, neither could they any more lift up their heads: but the land rested for forty years, while Gedeon presided.

Psalm 2:1
Why have the Gentiles raged, and the people devised vain things?

Psalm 81:15
The enemies of the Lord have lied to him: and their time shall be for ever.

Isaiah 17:12
Woe to the multitude of many people, like the multitude of the roaring sea: and the tumult of crowds, like the noise of many waters.

Jeremiah 11:16
The Lord called thy name, a plentiful olive tree, fair, fruitful, and beautiful: at the noise of a word, a great fire was kindled in it, and the branches thereof are burnt.

Zechariah 1:21
And I said: What come these to do? and he spoke, saying: These are the horns which have scattered Juda every man apart, and none of them lifted up his head: and these are come to fray them, to cast down the horns of the nations, that have lifted up the horn upon the land of Juda to scatter it.

Psalm 83:1
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