KJV King James Version
They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.
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Psalm 83:3
They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
With cunning they scheme against Your people and conspire against those You cherish,
WEB World English Bible
They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones.
ASV American Standard Version
They take crafty counsel against thy people, And consult together against thy hidden ones.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Against Thy people they take crafty counsel, And consult against Thy hidden ones.
Surrounding context — Psalm 83
1 A Song [or] Psalm of Asaph. Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
2 For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from [being] a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:
6 The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
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Psalm 64:2Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:Psalm 27:5For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.Psalm 31:20Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.Isaiah 7:6-7Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, [even] the son of Tabeal:Luke 20:20-23And they watched [him], and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor.Psalm 91:1He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.Psalm 10:9He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.Psalm 56:6They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.1 Samuel 13:19Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make [them] swords or spears:Colossians 3:3For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
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