Psalms 83

1 A Song of a Psalm for Asaph. O God, who shall be compared to thee? be not silent, neither be still, O God.

“A song or psalm of Assaph.” O God, take no rest for thyself: be not silent and keep not still, O God!

2 For behold, thine enemies have made a noise; and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.

For, lo, thy enemies make a tumult, and they that hate thee have lifted up their head.

3 Against thy people they have craftily imagined a device, and have taken counsel against thy saints.

Against thy people they take crafty secret device, and they consult against those whom thou protectest.

4 They have said, Come, and let us utterly destroy them out of the nation; and let the name of Israel be remembered no more at all.

They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; and the name of Israel shall be remembered no more.

5 For they have taken counsel together with one consent: they have made a confederacy against thee;

For they have consulted cordially together; against thee they make a covenant:

6 even the tents of the Idumeans, and the Ismaelites; Moab, and the Agarenes;

The tents of Edom, and the Ishmaelites: Moab, and the Hagarenes;

7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalec; the Philistines also, with them that dwell at Tyre.

Gebal, and 'Ammon, and 'Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;

8 Yea, Assur too is come with them: they have become a help to the children of Lot. (Pause)

Also Asshur is joined with them; they have become an arm unto the children of Lot. (Selah)

9 Do thou to them as to Madiam, and to Sisera; as to Jabin at the brook of Kison.

Do unto them as [unto] Midian; as to Sissera, as to Jabin, at the brook Kishon:

10 They were utterly destroyed at Aendor: they became as dung for the earth.

Who were annihilated at 'En-dor; they became as dung for the ground.

11 Make their princes as Oreb and Zeb, and Zebee and Salmana; [even] all their princes:

Render them, their nobles, like 'Oreb, and like Zeeb; yea, like Zebach and like Zalmunna' all their princes;

12 who said, let us take to ourselves the altar of God as an inheritance.

Who said, Let us conquer for ourselves the dwellings of God,

13 O my God, make them as a wheel; as stubble before the face of the wind.

O my God, render them like the thistle-down, like stubble before the wind.

14 As fire which shall burn up a wood, as the flame may consume the mountains;

As the fire burneth up a forest, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire:

15 so shalt thou persecute them with thy tempest, and trouble them in thine anger.

So pursue them with thy storm, and with thy whirlwind do thou terrify them.

16 Fill their faces with dishonour; so shall they seek thy name, O Lord.

Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek thy name, O Lord!

17 Let them be ashamed and troubled for evermore; yea, let them be confounded and destroyed.

Let them be made ashamed and terrified for ever and aye; yea, let them be put to the blush and perish:

18 And let them know that thy name is Lord; that thou alone art Most High over all the earth.

That they may know that thou, whose name is the Eternal, art by thyself alone, the Most High over all the earth.