Psalm 83:4 {82:5}
Good News Translation
"Come," they say, "let us destroy their nation, so that Israel will be forgotten forever."

New Revised Standard Version
They say, “Come, let us wipe them out as a nation; let the name of Israel be remembered no more.”

Contemporary English Version
They say, "Let's wipe out the nation of Israel and make sure that no one remembers its name!"

New American Bible
They say, “Come, let us wipe them out as a nation; let Israel’s name be remembered no more!”

Douay-Rheims Bible
They have said: Come and let us destroy them, so that they be not a nation: and let the name of Israel be remembered no more.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

They have said: Come and let us destroy them, so that they be not a nation: and let the name of Israel be remembered no more.

Exodus 1:10 Come let us wisely oppress them, lest they multiply: and if any war shall rise against us, join with our enemies, and having overcome us, depart out of the land.

Esther 3:6-9 And he counted it nothing to lay his hands upon Mardochai alone: for he had heard that he was of the nation of the Jews, and he chose rather to destroy all the nation of the Jews that were in the kingdom of Assuerus. . . .

Proverbs 1:12 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoils.

Jeremiah 11:19 And I was as a meek lamb, that is carried to be a victim: and I knew not that they had devised counsels against me, saying: Let us put wood on his bread, and cut him off from the land of the living, and let his name be remembered no more.

Jeremiah 31:36 If these ordinances shall fail before me, saith the Lord: then also the seed of Israel shall fail, so as not to be a nation before me for ever.

Daniel 7:25 And he shall speak words against the High One, and shall crush the saints of the most High: and he shall think himself able to change times and laws, and they shall be delivered into his hand until a time, and times, and half a time.

Matthew 27:62-66 And the next day, which followed the day of preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees came together to Pilate, . . .

Acts 4:17 But that it may be no farther spread among the people, let us threaten them that they speak no more in this name to any man.

Acts 9:1,2 And Saul, as yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest . . .

Context
Do Not Be Still, O God
3They have taken a malicious counsel against thy people, and have consulted against thy saints. 4They have said: Come and let us destroy them, so that they be not a nation: and let the name of Israel be remembered no more.5For they have contrived with one consent: they have made a covenant together against thee,…
Cross References
Esther 3:6
And he counted it nothing to lay his hands upon Mardochai alone: for he had heard that he was of the nation of the Jews, and he chose rather to destroy all the nation of the Jews that were in the kingdom of Assuerus.

Psalm 41:5
My enemies have spoken evils against me: when shall he die and his name perish?

Psalm 74:8
They said in their heart, the whole kindred of them together: Let us abolish all the festival days of God from the land.

Psalm 137:7
Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom, in the day of Jerusalem: Who say: Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.

Jeremiah 11:19
And I was as a meek lamb, that is carried to be a victim: and I knew not that they had devised counsels against me, saying: Let us put wood on his bread, and cut him off from the land of the living, and let his name be remembered no more.

Jeremiah 33:24
Hast thou not seen what this people hath spoken, saying: The two families which the Lord had chosen, are cast off: and they have despised my people, so that it is no more a nation before them?

Jeremiah 48:2
There is no more rejoicing in Moab over Hesebon: they have devised evil. Come, and let us cut it off from being a nation. Therefore shalt thou in silence hold thy peace, and the sword shall follow thee.

Jeremiah 48:42
And Moab shall cease to be a people: because he hath gloried against the Lord.

Ezekiel 35:10
Because thou hast said: The two nations, and the two lands shall be mine, and I will possess them by inheritance: whereas the Lord was there.

Psalm 83:3
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