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The poet prays, may God not remain an inactive looker-on in connection with the danger of destruction that threatens His people. דֳּמִי (with which יְהִי is to be supplied) is the opposite of alertness; חָרֵשׁ the opposite of speaking (in connection with which it is assumed that God's word is at the same time deed); שָׁקַט the opposite of being agitated and activity. The energetic future jehemajûn gives outward emphasis to the confirmation of the petition, and the fact that Israel's foes are the foes of God gives inward emphasis to it. On נָשָׂא רֹאשׁ, cf. Psa 110:7. סֹוד is here a secret agreement; and יַֽעֲרִימוּ, elsewhere to deal craftily, here signifies to craftily plot, devise, bring a thing about. צפוּנֶיךָ is to be understood according to Psa 27:5; Psa 31:21. The Hithpa. הִתְיָעֵץ alternates here with the more ancient Niph. (Psa 83:6). The design of the enemies in this instance has reference to the total extirpation of Israel, of the separatist-people who exclude themselves from the life of the world and condemn it. מִגֹּוי, from being a people = so that it may no longer be a people or nation, as in Isa 7:8; Isa 17:1; Isa 25:2; Jer 48:42. In the borrowed passage, Jer 48:2, by an interchange of a letter it is נַכְרִיתֶנָּה. This Asaph Psalm is to be discerned in not a few passages of the prophets; cf. Isa 62:6. with Psa 83:2, Isa 17:12 with Psa 83:3.