Psalms 83 · Grade 4
When Many Come Against You
Read and Think
The title of Psalm 83 calls it a song and a Psalm by Asaph. Israel is surrounded. Ten peoples are named, from Edom and Moab to Philistia, Tyre and Assyria. They conspire with one mind and say, Let's destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more. Asaph prays, God, don't keep silent.
Asaph remembers God's past help. He asks God to do to these enemies as he did to Midian in Gideon's day, and to Sisera and Jabin in the days of Deborah. He uses strong pictures from nature: make them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind, pursued by a storm. This is an imprecatory psalm, a prayer asking God to judge enemies.
Yet there is hope even here. Verse 16 asks, Fill their faces with confusion, that they may seek your name, Yahweh. The goal is that they may know that you alone, whose name is Yahweh, are the Most High over all the earth. Asaph leaves the battle and the outcome to God.
Show What You Know
How many peoples are named against Israel?
What past victories does Asaph remember?
What is an imprecatory psalm?
What hope does verse 16 hold?
Word Bank Fill-In
Use the word bank to fill in each blank.
- This is an imprecatory psalm, a prayer asking to judge enemies.
- Verse 16 asks, Fill their faces with confusion, that they may seek your , Yahweh.
- The goal is that they may know that you alone, whose name is , are the Most High over all the earth.
Think About It
How can remembering God's past help give you courage when many seem against you?
Why might Asaph hope his enemies would seek God's name?
Memory Verse
“Fill their faces with confusion, that they may seek your name, Yahweh.”
Psalms 83:16 (WEB)
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Prayer
Dear God, thank You for your great name. Help me . Amen.
Take It Home
For families: talk about these together.
- How can we leave a fight to God?
- How can you pray that people who oppose you would come to know God?
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