< Psalms 83 >

1 A Canticle Psalm of Asaph. O God, who will ever be like you? Do not be silent, and do not be unmoved, O God.
A Song; a Psalm of Asaph. O God, keep not silence; hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God:
2 For behold, your enemies have sounded off, and those who hate you have carried out a head.
For behold, thine enemies make a tumult; and they that hate thee lift up the head.
3 They have acted with malice in counsel over your people, and they have plotted against your holy ones.
They take crafty counsel against thy people, and consult against thy hidden ones:
4 They have said, “Come, let us scatter them from the nations and not allow the name of Israel to be remembered any longer.”
They say, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, and let the name of Israel be mentioned no more.
5 For they plotted unanimously. Joined together against you, they ordained a covenant:
For they have consulted together with one heart: they have made an alliance together against thee.
6 the tabernacle of Edomites and Ishmaelites, and Moab and the Hagarites,
The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagarites;
7 and Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek, the foreigners among the inhabitants of Tyre.
Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia, with the inhabitants of Tyre;
8 For even Assur comes with them. They have become the helpers of the sons of Lot.
Asshur also is joined with them: they are an arm to the sons of Lot. (Selah)
9 Do to them as you did to Midian and Sisera, just as to Jabin at the torrent of Kishon.
Do unto them as to Midian; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the torrent of Kishon:
10 They perished at Endor, and they became like the dung of the earth.
Who were destroyed at Endor; they became as dung for the ground.
11 Set their leaders to be like Oreb and Zeeb, and Zebah and Zalmunna: all their leaders
Make their nobles as Oreb and as Zeeb; and all their chiefs as Zebah and as Zalmunna.
12 who said, “Let us possess the Sanctuary of God for an inheritance.”
For they have said, Let us take to ourselves God's dwelling-places in possession.
13 My God, set them like a wheel, and like stubble before the face of the wind.
O my God, make them like a whirling thing, like stubble before the wind.
14 Set them like a fire burning up the forest, and like a flame burning up the mountains.
As fire burneth a forest, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire,
15 So will you pursue them in your tempest, and disturb them in your wrath.
So pursue them with thy tempest, and terrify them with thy whirlwind.
16 Fill their faces with shame, and they will seek your name, O Lord.
Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek thy name, O Jehovah.
17 Let them be ashamed and troubled, from age to age, and let them be confounded and perish.
Let them be put to shame and be dismayed for ever, and let them be confounded and perish:
18 And let them know that the Lord is your name. You alone are the Most High in all the earth.
That they may know that thou alone, whose name is Jehovah, art the Most High over all the earth.

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