Psalms 83
1 A song. A psalm of Asaph. God, please do not stay silent! You can't remain unmoved! God, you must not keep quiet!
A Song of a Psalm for Asaph. O God, who shall be compared to thee? be not silent, neither be still, O God.
2 Can't you hear the roars of your enemies? Can't you see how those who hate you are defiantly lifting up their heads?
For behold, thine enemies have made a noise; and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
3 They invent cunning plans to conspire against your people; they plot against those you treasure.
Against thy people they have craftily imagined a device, and have taken counsel against thy saints.
4 They say, “Come on! Let's destroy them as a nation so the name ‘Israel’ will be completely forgotten.”
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.
5 They all agree in their conspiracy; they've made a treaty together to attack you—
For they have taken counsel together with one consent: they have made a confederacy against thee;
6 the people of Edom, the Ishmaelites, Moab, and the Hagirites;
even the tents of the Idumeans, and the Ismaelites; Moab, and the Agarenes;
7 the people of Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, Philistia, and the inhabitants of Tyre.
Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalec; the Philistines also, with them that dwell at Tyre.
8 Assyria too has joined them, allied with the descendants of Lot. (Selah)
Yea, Assur too is come with them: they have become a help to the children of Lot. (Pause)
9 Do to them what you did to Midian, what you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River.
Do thou to them as to Madiam, and to Sisera; as to Jabin at the brook of Kison.
10 They were destroyed at Endor and became like manure to fertilize the ground.
They were utterly destroyed at Aendor: they became as dung for the earth.
11 Make their leaders like Oreb and Zeeb; all their rulers like Zebah and Zalmunna,
Make their princes as Oreb and Zeb, and Zebee and Salmana; [even] all their princes:
12 for they said, “Let's take the pastures of God for ourselves!”
who said, let us take to ourselves the altar of God as an inheritance.
13 My God, make them like whirling tumbleweeds, chaff blown away by the wind.
O my God, make them as a wheel; as stubble before the face of the wind.
14 Just like fire that burns the forest, a flame that sets fire to the mountains,
As fire which shall burn up a wood, as the flame may consume the mountains;
15 in the same way chase them down with your storm, terrify them with your whirlwind.
so shalt thou persecute them with thy tempest, and trouble them in thine anger.
16 Shame them in defeat so that they come to you, Lord!
Fill their faces with dishonour; so shall they seek thy name, O Lord.
17 Make them ashamed, terrify them forever so that they die in disgrace.
Let them be ashamed and troubled for evermore; yea, let them be confounded and destroyed.
18 Let them understand that you alone, called the Lord, are the Most High who rules over all the earth.
And let them know that thy name is Lord; that thou alone art Most High over all the earth.
