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.
God, do not continue to be silent! Do not be quiet and say nothing,
2 For behold, your enemies have made a noise; and they that hate you have lifted up the head.
because your enemies are rioting against you; those who hate you are rebelling against you!
3 Against your people they have craftily imagined a device, and have taken counsel against your saints.
They are secretly planning to do things to harm [us], your people; they are (conspiring together against/planning how to defeat) the people whom you protect.
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 say, “Come, we must destroy their nation, with the result that no one will remember that Israel ever existed!”
5 For they have taken counsel together with one consent: they have made a confederacy against you;
They have agreed on [what they want to do to destroy Israel], and they have formed an alliance against you.
6 even the tents of the Idumeans, and the Ismaelites; Moab, and the Agarenes;
[The people who have done that are] the people of Edom [region], the descendants of Ishmael [who live on the east side of the Jordan River], the Moab [people-group], the descendants of Hagar [who also live on the east side of the Jordan River],
7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalec; the Philistines also, with them that dwell at Tyre.
Gebal [people-group], the Ammon [people-group], the Amalek [people-group], the Philistia [people-group], and the people of Tyre [city].
8 Yes, Assur too is come with them: they have become a help to the children of Lot. (Pause)
[The people of] have joined them; they are strong allies of the [Moab and Ammon people-groups, who are] descendants of [Abraham’s nephew] Lot.
9 Do you to them as to Madiam, and to Sisera; as to Jabin at the brook of Kison.
[God], do to those people things like you did to the Midian [people-group], like [you did] to Sisera and Jabin at Kishon River.
10 They were utterly destroyed at Aendor: they became as dung for the earth.
You destroyed them at Endor [town], and their corpses [lay on] the ground and decayed.
11 Make their princes as Oreb and Zeb, and Zebee and Salmana; [even] all their princes:
Do to them things like you did to [Kings] Oreb and Zeeb; defeat their leaders like you defeated Zebah and Zalmunna,
12 who said, let us take to ourselves the altar of God as an inheritance.
who said, “We will take for ourselves the land that [the Israelis say] belongs to God!”
13 O my God, make them as a wheel; as stubble before the face of the wind.
My God, cause them [to disappear quickly] like whirling dust, like chaff that the wind blows away!
14 As fire which shall burn up a wood, as the flame may consume the mountains;
Like a fire completely burns a forest and like flames burn in the mountains,
15 so shall you persecute them with your tempest, and trouble them in your anger.
expel them by sending storms; cause them to be terrified by your big storms/hurricanes!
16 Fill their faces with dishonour; so shall they seek your name, O Lord.
Cause them [SYN] to be very ashamed in order that they will admit that you are very powerful.
17 Let them be ashamed and troubled for evermore; yes, let them be confounded and destroyed.
Cause them to be forever disgraced [because of being defeated], and cause them to die while they are still disgraced.
18 And let them know that your name is Lord; that you alone are Most High over all the earth.
Cause them to know that you, whose name is Yahweh, are the supreme ruler over everything on the earth.
