Psalm 83:8
New International Version
Even Assyria has joined them to reinforce Lot’s descendants.

New Living Translation
Assyria has joined them, too, and is allied with the descendants of Lot. Interlude

English Standard Version
Asshur also has joined them; they are the strong arm of the children of Lot. Selah

Berean Standard Bible
Even Assyria has joined them, lending strength to the sons of Lot. Selah

King James Bible
Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.

New King James Version
Assyria also has joined with them; They have helped the children of Lot. Selah

New American Standard Bible
Assyria also has joined them; They have become a help to the children of Lot. Selah

NASB 1995
Assyria also has joined with them; They have become a help to the children of Lot. Selah.

NASB 1977
Assyria also has joined with them; They have become a help to the children of Lot. Selah.

Legacy Standard Bible
Assyria also has joined with them; They have become the power of the children of Lot. Selah.

Amplified Bible
Assyria also has joined with them; They have helped the children of Lot [the Ammonites and the Moabites] and have been an arm [of strength] to them. Selah.

Christian Standard Bible
Even Assyria has joined them; they lend support to the sons of Lot. Selah

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Even Assyria has joined them; they lend support to the sons of Lot. Selah

American Standard Version
Assyria also is joined with them; They have helped the children of Lot. [Selah

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Also the Assyrians have made agreement with them and they have been a help to the sons of Lot.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Yea, Assur too is come with them: they have become a help to the children of Lot. Pause.

Contemporary English Version
Even Assyria has joined forces with Moab and Ammon.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Yea, and the Assyrian also is joined with them: they are come to the aid of the sons of Lot.

English Revised Version
Assyria also is joined with them; they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Even Assyria has joined them. They helped the descendants of Lot. [Selah]

Good News Translation
Assyria has also joined them as a strong ally of the Ammonites and Moabites, the descendants of Lot.

International Standard Version
Even Assyria joined them to strengthen the descendants of Lot. Interlude

JPS Tanakh 1917
Assyria also is joined with them; They have been an arm to the children of Lot. Selah

Literal Standard Version
Asshur is also joined with them, | They have been an arm to sons of Lot. Selah.

Majority Standard Bible
Even Assyria has joined them, lending strength to the sons of Lot. Selah

New American Bible
Assyria, too, in league with them, backs the descendants of Lot. Selah

NET Bible
Even Assyria has allied with them, lending its strength to the descendants of Lot. (Selah)

New Revised Standard Version
Assyria also has joined them; they are the strong arm of the children of Lot. Selah

New Heart English Bible
Assyria also is joined with them. They have helped the descendants of Lot. Selah.

Webster's Bible Translation
Assur also is joined with them: they have helped the children of Lot. Selah.

World English Bible
Assyria also is joined with them. They have helped the children of Lot. Selah.

Young's Literal Translation
Asshur also is joined with them, They have been an arm to sons of Lot. Selah.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Do Not Be Still, O God
7of Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, of Philistia with the people of Tyre. 8Even Assyria has joined them, lending strength to the sons of Lot. Selah 9Do to them as You did to Midian, as to Sisera and Jabin at the River Kishon,…

Cross References
Deuteronomy 2:9
Then the LORD said to me, "Do not harass the Moabites or provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land, because I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as their possession."

2 Kings 15:19
Then Pul king of Assyria invaded the land, and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver in order to gain his support and strengthen his own grip on the kingdom.


Treasury of Scripture

Assur also is joined with them: they have helped the children of Lot. Selah.

Assur.

Genesis 10:11
Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,

Genesis 25:3
And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.

holpen.

Isaiah 33:2
O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.

the children

Genesis 19:37,38
And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day…

Deuteronomy 2:9
And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession.

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














(8) Assur.--For the more usual Ashur, Assyria. Some, however, think the Syria is here intended, that name being, in the view of the Greek writers, a corruption of Assyria. ("The Greeks call them Syrians, but the Barbarians Assyrians."--Herod, vii., 63.) And even if etymologically incorrect, the error of the Greeks may have been consciously or unconsciously shared by the Jews, and the kingdom of the Seleucidae be honoured by the name of the grander and more ancient power.

They have holpen.--See margin. And for the importance of the form of the statement see Introduction.

Children of Lot.--Ammon and Moab, who thus appear as the leaders of the confederacy.

Verse 8. - Assur also is joined with them. This is the climax. Assyria - the great empire - the most important of all the kingdoms of the earth - has joined the petty nations upon Israel's border, and holds a place in the great confederacy. From the historical books it would appear that this occurred but once, viz. in David's great war with the Ammonites and their allies (see the Introduction). They have holpen the children of Lot; i.e. the Moabites and Ammonites (comp. Genesis 19:37, 38; Deuteronomy 2:9, 19). Moab and Ammon would seem to have been the principal powers engaged in the confederacy. The others were their helpers.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Even
גַּם־ (gam-)
Conjunction
Strong's 1571: Assemblage, also, even, yea, though, both, and

Assyria
אַ֭שּׁוּר (’aš·šūr)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 804: Ashshur

has joined
נִלְוָ֣ה (nil·wāh)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3867: To twine, to unite, to remain, to borrow, to lend

them,
עִמָּ֑ם (‘im·mām)
Preposition | third person masculine plural
Strong's 5973: With, equally with

lending
הָ֤י֥וּ (hā·yū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

strength
זְר֖וֹעַ (zə·rō·w·a‘)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 2220: The arm, the foreleg, force

to the sons
לִבְנֵי־ (liḇ·nê-)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 1121: A son

of Lot.
ל֣וֹט (lō·wṭ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3876: Lot -- Abraham's nephew

Selah
סֶֽלָה׃ (se·lāh)
Interjection
Strong's 5542: Suspension, pause


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