“Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O Lord.”
The purpose is clarified: "Fill their faces with shame, so that they may seek your name, O LORD!" The objective is not merely destruction but the humiliation and conversion of the enemies. The phrase "fill their faces with shame" suggests that shame will become their identifying characteristic.
Church Fathers on Psalms 83:16
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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