Psalm 83:4 "Come," they say, "let us destroy them as a nation, so that Israel's name is remembered no more."

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
"Come," they say, "let us destroy them as a nation, so that Israel's name is remembered no more."

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

New American Standard Bible
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
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
They say, "Come, let us wipe them out as a nation so that Israel's name will no longer be remembered."

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

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.

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.'

Cross References

Esther 3:6
And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had showed him the people of Mordecai: why Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai.

Psalm 41:5
My enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?

Psalm 74:8
They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.

Psalm 137:7
Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Raze it, raze it, even to the foundation thereof.

Jeremiah 11:19
But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

Jeremiah 33:24
Consider you not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD has chosen, he has even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.

Jeremiah 48:2
There shall be no more praise of Moab: in Heshbon they have devised evil against it; come, and let us cut it off from being a nation. Also you shall be cut down, O Madmen; the sword shall pursue you.

Jeremiah 48:42
And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he has magnified himself against the LORD.

Ezekiel 35:10
Because you have said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the LORD was there:

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

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

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