Psalm 83:16
New International Version
Cover their faces with shame, LORD, so that they will seek your name.

New Living Translation
Utterly disgrace them until they submit to your name, O LORD.

English Standard Version
Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek your name, O LORD.

Berean Standard Bible
Cover their faces with shame, that they may seek Your name, O LORD.

King James Bible
Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.

New King James Version
Fill their faces with shame, That they may seek Your name, O LORD.

New American Standard Bible
Fill their faces with dishonor, So that they will seek Your name, LORD.

NASB 1995
Fill their faces with dishonor, That they may seek Your name, O LORD.

NASB 1977
Fill their faces with dishonor, That they may seek Thy name, O LORD.

Legacy Standard Bible
Fill their faces with disgrace, That they may seek Your name, O Yahweh.

Amplified Bible
Fill their faces with shame and disgrace, That they may [persistently] seek Your name, O LORD.

Christian Standard Bible
Cover their faces with shame so that they will seek your name, LORD.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Cover their faces with shame so that they will seek Your name Yahweh.

American Standard Version
Fill their faces with confusion, That they may seek thy name, O Jehovah.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek your Name, LORD JEHOVAH!

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Fill their faces with dishonour; so shall they seek thy name, O Lord.

Contemporary English Version
Make them blush with shame, until they turn and worship you, our LORD.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Fill their faces with shame; and they shall seek thy name, O Lord.

English Revised Version
Fill their faces with confusion; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Let their faces blush with shame, O LORD, so that they must look to you for help.

Good News Translation
Cover their faces with shame, O LORD, and make them acknowledge your power.

International Standard Version
Fill their faces with shame until they seek your name, God.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Fill their faces with shame; That they may seek Thy name, O LORD.

Literal Standard Version
Fill their faces [with] shame, | And they seek Your Name, O YHWH.

Majority Standard Bible
Cover their faces with shame, that they may seek Your name, O LORD.

New American Bible
Cover their faces with shame, till they seek your name, LORD.

NET Bible
Cover their faces with shame, so they might seek you, O LORD.

New Revised Standard Version
Fill their faces with shame, so that they may seek your name, O LORD.

New Heart English Bible
Fill their faces with confusion, that they may seek your name, LORD.

Webster's Bible Translation
Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.

World English Bible
Fill their faces with confusion, that they may seek your name, Yahweh.

Young's Literal Translation
Fill their faces with shame, And they seek Thy name, O Jehovah.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Do Not Be Still, O God
15so pursue them with Your tempest, and terrify them with Your storm. 16Cover their faces with shame, that they may seek Your name, O LORD. 17May they be ever ashamed and terrified; may they perish in disgrace.…

Cross References
Job 10:15
If I am guilty, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift my head. I am full of shame and aware of my affliction.

Psalm 109:29
May my accusers be clothed with disgrace; may they wear their shame like a robe.

Psalm 132:18
I will clothe his enemies with shame, but the crown upon him will gleam."


Treasury of Scripture

Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek your name, O LORD.

Psalm 6:10
Let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed: let them return and be ashamed suddenly.

Psalm 9:19,20
Arise, O LORD; let not man prevail: let the heathen be judged in thy sight…

Psalm 34:5
They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.

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Psalm 83
1. A complaint to God of the enemies conspiracies
9. A prayer against those who oppress the Church














(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.

Verse 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.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Cover
מַלֵּ֣א (mal·lê)
Verb - Piel - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 4390: To fill, be full of

their faces
פְנֵיהֶ֣ם (p̄ə·nê·hem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 6440: The face

with shame,
קָל֑וֹן (qā·lō·wn)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7036: Disgrace, the pudenda

that they may seek
וִֽיבַקְשׁ֖וּ (wî·ḇaq·šū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 1245: To search out, to strive after

Your name,
שִׁמְךָ֣ (šim·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 8034: A name

O LORD.
יְהוָֽה׃ (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel


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