Tony Ellsworth (28 July 2006)
"Psalm 83 found - Relating to Israel and current WAR!"


Believing in God’s Sovereignty (heavily!! With all my Marbles!) and that nothing happens by chance I believe it’s a good time to take a closer look at Psalms 83 and see what it confirms (consider the conflict Israel is in – nuff’ said!):

Irish Worker Finds Ancient Psalms in Bog

Irish archaeologists Tuesday heralded the discovery of an ancient book
of psalms by a construction worker who spotted something while driving
the shovel of his backhoe into a bog.

The approximately 20-page book has been dated to the years 800-1000.
Trinity College manuscripts expert Bernard Meehan said it was the first
discovery of an Irish early medieval document in two centuries.

"This is really a miracle find," said Pat Wallace, director of the
National Museum of Ireland, which has the book stored in refrigeration
and facing years of painstaking analysis before being put on public display.

"There's two sets of odds that make this discovery really way out. First
of all, it's unlikely that something this fragile could survive buried
in a bog at all, and then for it to be unearthed and spotted before it
was destroyed is incalculably more amazing."

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The book was found open to a page describing, in Latin script, Psalm 83,
in which God hears complaints of other nations' attempts to wipe out the
name of Israel.

Psalm 83

A song. A psalm of Asaph.

 1 O God, do not keep silent;
       be not quiet, O God, be not still.

 2 See how your enemies are astir,
       how your foes rear their heads.

 3 With cunning they conspire against your people;
       they plot against those you cherish.

 4 "Come," they say, "let us destroy them as a nation,
       that the name of Israel be remembered no more."

 5 With one mind they plot together;
       they form an alliance against you-

 6 the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,
       of Moab and the Hagrites,

 7 Gebal, [a] Ammon and Amalek,
       Philistia, with the people of Tyre.

 8 Even Assyria has joined them
       to lend strength to the descendants of Lot.
       Selah

 9 Do to them as you did to Midian,
       as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon,

 10 who perished at Endor
       and became like refuse on the ground.

 11 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb,
       all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,

 12 who said, "Let us take possession
       of the pasturelands of God."

 13 Make them like tumbleweed, O my God,
       like chaff before the wind.

 14 As fire consumes the forest
       or a flame sets the mountains ablaze,

 15 so pursue them with your tempest
       and terrify them with your storm.

 16 Cover their faces with shame
       so that men will seek your name, O LORD.

 17 May they ever be ashamed and dismayed;
       may they perish in disgrace.

 18 Let them know that you, whose name is the LORD—
       that you alone are the Most High over all the earth.

Blessings, Tony