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 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, lo! thine enemies roar, And they who hate thee lift up their heads.

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

For they form secret plots against thy people, And consult together against thy chosen 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.”

“Come,” say they, “let us blot them out from the number of the nations, That the name of Israel may no more be remembered!”

5 For they plotted unanimously. Joined together against you, they ordained a covenant:

With one consent they consult together, Against thee do they form a league, —

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

The tents 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.

The Assyrians also are joined with them; They lend their strength to the children of Lot.

9 Do to them as you did to Midian and Sisera, just as to Jabin at the torrent of Kishon.

Do to them as to the Midianites, As to Sisera, as to Jabin at the brook Kison,

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

Who perished at Endor, And were trampled like dung to the earth.

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

Make their chiefs like Oreb and Zeeb; Yea, all their princes as Zeba and Zalmunna!

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

Who say, “Let us seize on God's habitations!”

13 My God, set them like a wheel, and like stubble before the face of the wind.

Make them, O my God! like whirling chaff; 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 consumeth the forest, And as flame setteth the mountains in a blaze,

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 storm!

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

Cover their faces with shame, That they may seek thy 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! 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 they may know that thy name alone is Jehovah; That thou art the Most High over all the earth.