“For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.”
The threat is specified: "For your enemies are in tumult; those who hate you have raised their heads." The enemies' noise and raised heads suggest aggressive, arrogant action against God and God's people. The characterization of enemies as those who "hate" God establishes this as a theological conflict, not merely a political or military dispute.
Church Fathers on Psalms 83:2
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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