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Psalms Chapter 83 verse 16 Holy Bible

ASV Psalms 83:16

Fill their faces with confusion, That they may seek thy name, O Jehovah.
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BBE Psalms 83:16

Let their faces be full of shame; so that they may give honour to your name, O Lord.
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DARBY Psalms 83:16

Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek thy name, O Jehovah.
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KJV Psalms 83:16

Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.
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WBT Psalms 83:16

So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.
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WEB Psalms 83:16

Fill their faces with confusion, That they may seek your name, Yahweh.
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YLT Psalms 83:16

Fill their faces `with' shame, And they seek Thy name, O Jehovah.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 16. - Fill their faces with shame; i.e. cause their enterprise to fail, and so bring them to shame and confusion of face. That they may seek thy Name, O Lord. A merciful purpose lies behind the greater number of Divine visitations. They are intended to scourge men into submission, and cause them to turn to God. The psalmist, being in full sympathy with God, desires that his merciful intentions may have effect.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(16) Thy name, O Lord.--Rather, thy name (which is) Jehovah. The nations were to seek Him not only as God, but as Jehovah God of Israel. This is proved by Psalm 83:18. No doubt the thought uppermost in the verse is the submission of the heathen to Jehovah's power. But we may, looking back, read in it a nobler wish and a grander hope--the prophetic hope of a union of nations in a belief in the common fatherhood of God.