# Psalm Chapter 83 - A Song or Psalm of Asaph

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Podcast: [Daily Psalms - Classical Psalms Every Day](https://stenobird.com/podcast/daily-psalms-classical-psalms-every-day-6735312)
Published: 2026-06-09T09:00:00+00:00
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Psalm 83: The Conspiracy That Named Itself Asaph does something peculiar in this psalm: he names names. Edom, the Ishmaelites, Moab, the Hagarenes, Gebal, Ammon, Amalek, Philistia, Tyre, Assyria — a catalogue of enemies so thorough it reads like a military intelligence briefing delivered on one's knees. And their conspiracy is not merely political but existential: "Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance." This is not a border dispute; it is an attempt at erasure. What gives the psalm its strange power is the contrast between the meticulousness of the threat and the audacity of the response. Asaph does not ask for an army; he asks for a storm. Make them like a wheel, like stubble before the wind, like fire on the mountains. The prayer is fierce, yes, but notice where it arrives: "That men may know that thou, whose name alone is Jehovah, art the most high over all the earth." Even the destruction of enemies becomes, in Asaph's imagination, a form of evangelism. The goal is not revenge but revelation — that every conspiracy against God's people might, in its own undoing, become a signpost pointing to the God who outlasts them all. 00:00 The Enemies Conspire 01:00 The Gathering Alliance 02:00 Let Them Know Who God Is

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