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. A Psalm by Asaph. God, don’t keep silent. Don’t keep silent, and don’t be still, God.

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

For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.

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

They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones.

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.

“Come,” they say, “let’s destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”

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

For they have conspired together with one mind. They form an alliance against you.

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

The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagrites;

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

Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;

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

Assyria also is joined with them. They have helped 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 to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon;

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

who perished at Endor, who became as dung for the earth.

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

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

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

who said, “Let’s take possession of God’s pasture lands.”

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

My God, make them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind.

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

As the fire that burns the forest, as the flame that sets the mountains on fire,

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

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

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

Fill their faces with confusion, that they may seek your name, Yahweh.

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

Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded 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 you alone, whose name is Yahweh, are the Most High over all the earth.