Discovery BoxPsalms 83:3-5 
Context83:3 They carefully plot 1 against your people,
and make plans to harm 2 the ones you cherish. 3
83:4 They say, “Come on, let’s annihilate them so they are no longer a nation! 4
Then the name of Israel will be remembered no more.”
83:5 Yes, 5 they devise a unified strategy; 6
they form an alliance 7 against you.
1 tn Heb “they make crafty a plot.”
2 tn Heb “and consult together against.”
3 tn The passive participle of the Hebrew verb צָפַן (tsafan, “to hide”) is used here in the sense of “treasured; cherished.”
4 tn Heb “we will cause them to disappear from [being] a nation.”
5 tn Or “for.”
6 tn Heb “they consult [with] a heart together.”
7 tn Heb “cut a covenant.”
