Psalms 83

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

A Song [or] Psalm of Asaph. Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.

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

For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.

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

They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden 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.

They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from [being] a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.

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

For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:

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

The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of 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 Yes, Assur too is come with them: they have become a help to the children of Lot. (Pause)

Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. (Selah)

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

Do unto them as [unto] the Midianites; as [to] Sisera, as [to] Jabin, at the brook of Kison:

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

[Which] perished at Endor: they 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 like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:

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

Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.

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

O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.

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

As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;

15 so shall you persecute them with your tempest, and trouble them in your anger.

So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.

16 Fill their faces with dishonour; so shall they seek your 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; yes, let them be confounded and destroyed.

Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:

18 And let them know that your name is Lord; that you alone are Most High over all the earth.

That [men] may know that thou, whose name alone [is] JEHOVAH, [art] the most high over all the earth.