“Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.”
The enemies' intention is restated: "who said, 'Let us take the pastures of God for ourselves.'" The enemies covet Israel's land, described as "the pastures of God"—land belonging to God and given by God to the covenant people. The attempt to seize these pastures represents a violation of God's territorial allocation.
Church Fathers on Psalms 83:12
1. Of this Psalm the title is, “A song of a Psalm of Asaph.” We have already often said what is the interpretation of Asaph, that is, congregation. That man, therefore, who was called Asaph, is named in representation of the congregation of God's people in the titles of many Psalms. But in Greek, congregation is called synagogue, which has come to be held for a kind of proper name for the Jewish people, that it should be called The Synagogue; even as the Christian people is…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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