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Psalm 83:1

A song. A Psalm by Asaph. God, don’t keep silent. Don’t keep silent, and don’t be still, God.

1A song. A Psalm by Asaph. God, don’t keep silent. Don’t keep silent, and don’t be still, God.
2For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.
3They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones.
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Notice

The repeated plea against silence carries the urgency of people under threat, for whom God’s apparent stillness has become part of their distress.

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Where else Scripture says this

12 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Exodus 14:14The LORD will fight for you, and you shall be still.”Both passages concern God’s action: Psalm 83 asks God not to be still, while Exodus tells the people to be still.
Psalm 28:1By David. To you, LORD, I call. My rock, don’t be deaf to me, lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.Both prayers plead against God’s silence, with Psalm 28 naming the fear of descending into the pit.
Psalm 109:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. God of my praise, don’t remain silent,Both psalms open with a direct appeal to God to break his silence.
Psalm 35:22You have seen it, LORD. Don’t keep silent. Lord, don’t be far from me.Both plead for God not to keep silent; Psalm 35 also asks him not to remain far away.
Psalm 50:3Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him.Psalm 83 asks God not to keep silent, while Psalm 50 describes God coming without silence.
1 Chronicles 6:39His brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, even Asaph the son of Berechiah, the son of Shimea,Asaph’s name connects the psalm’s heading with the man named in this family record.
Isaiah 42:14“I have been silent a long time. I have been quiet and restrained myself. Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will both gasp and pant.Both texts speak of divine silence and stillness; Isaiah depicts God declaring that his long restraint will end.
Isaiah 64:12Will you hold yourself back for these things, LORD? Will you keep silent and punish us very severely?Both prayers appeal to God about his silence and restraint in the face of distress.
Habakkuk 1:13You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously and keep silent when the wicked …Both address God’s silence amid threatened or actual harm, with Habakkuk naming the wicked swallowing someone more righteous.
Judges 8:21The plea for God to act shares little with this account of Gideon killing Zebah and Zalmunna.
1 Chronicles 15:17So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brothers, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brothers, Ethan the son of …The psalm names Asaph in its heading, and Chronicles names Asaph among those appointed by the Levites.
1 Chronicles 25:2of the sons of Asaph: Zaccur, Joseph, Nethaniah, and Asharelah. The sons of Asaph were under the hand of Asaph, who prophesied at the order of the king.Asaph connects the psalm’s heading with this account of his oversight of his sons and his prophesying.
Where this verse fits

Injustice and anger. feeling distant from God. fear for the future.

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Encouragement

Your prayer may sound urgent and unfinished. Asaph repeats his plea without recording an answer here; even in the silence, he addresses God as the one whose action matters.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).