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.

Keep not you silence, O God: hold not your 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, lo, your enemies make a tumult: and they that hate you have lifted up the head.

3 They have acted with malice in counsel over your people, and they have plotted against your holy ones.

They have taken crafty counsel against your people, and consulted against your 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 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 plotted unanimously. Joined together against you, they ordained a covenant:

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

6 the tabernacle of Edomites and Ishmaelites, and Moab and the Hagarites,

The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;

7 and Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek, the foreigners among the inhabitants of Tyre.

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

8 For even Assur comes with them. They have become the helpers of the sons of Lot.

Assur also is joined with them: they have helped the children 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 unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:

10 They perished at Endor, and they became like the dung of the earth.

Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth.

11 Set their leaders to be like Oreb and Zeeb, and Zebah and Zalmunna: all their leaders

Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:

12 who said, “Let us possess the Sanctuary of God for an inheritance.”

Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God 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 wheel; as the stubble before the wind.

14 Set them like a fire burning up the forest, and like a flame burning up the mountains.

As the fire burns a wood, and as the flame sets the mountains on fire;

15 So will you pursue them in your tempest, and disturb them in your wrath.

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

16 Fill their faces with shame, and they will seek your name, O Lord.

Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek your name, O LORD.

17 Let them be ashamed and troubled, from age to age, and let them be confounded and perish.

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

18 And let them know that the Lord is your name. You alone are the Most High in all the earth.

That men may know that you, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, are the most high over all the earth.