Psalms 83
1 A Song. A Psalm. Of Asaph. O God, do not keep quiet: let your lips be open and take no rest, O God.
[A song. A Psalm by Asaph.] God, do not be silent. Do not be deaf, and do not be inactive, God.
2 For see! those who make war on you are out of control; your haters are lifting up their heads.
For, look, your enemies make an uproar. Those who hate you are hostile.
3 They have made wise designs against your people, talking together against those whom you keep in a secret place.
They devise crafty plans against your people, and conspire together against your treasured ones.
4 They have said, Come, let us put an end to them as a nation; so that the name of Israel may go out of man's memory.
They say, "Come, and let us annihilate them as a nation; let the name of Israel may be remembered no more."
5 For they have all come to an agreement; they are all joined together against you:
For they plot a unified strategy; they make a covenant against you;
6 The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab and the Hagarites;
the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab, and the Hagrites,
7 Gebal and Ammon and Amalek; the Philistines and the people of Tyre;
Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre.
8 Assur is joined with them; they have become the support of the children of Lot. (Selah)
Assyria too is joined with them; they lend support to the descendants of Lot. (Selah)
9 Do to them what you did to the Midianites; what you did to Sisera and Jabin, at the stream of Kishon:
Do to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin at the Kishon River,
10 Who came to destruction at En-dor; their bodies became dust and waste.
who were destroyed at Endor, who became manure for the ground.
11 Make their chiefs like Oreb and Zeeb; and all their rulers like Zebah and Zalmunna:
Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
12 Who have said, Let us take for our heritage the resting-place of God.
who said, "Let us take possession for ourselves the pastures of God."
13 O my God, make them like the rolling dust; like dry stems before the wind.
My God, make them like tumbleweed; like dead weeds blown by the wind.
14 As fire burning a wood, and as a flame causing fire on the mountains,
Like a fire that consumes a forest, and like the flames that consume the mountains,
15 So go after them with your strong wind, and let them be full of fear because of your storm.
so pursue them with your gale winds, and terrify them with your storm.
16 Let their faces be full of shame; so that they may give honour to your name, O Lord.
Cover their faces with shame, so that they might seek your name, YHWH.
17 Let them be overcome and troubled for ever; let them be put to shame and come to destruction;
Let them be put to shame and terrified forever; let them perish in disgrace,
18 So that men may see that you only, whose name is Yahweh, are Most High over all the earth.
that they will know that you alone, whose name is YHWH, are the Most High over all the earth.
