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!
Keep not you silence, O God: hold not your peace, and be not 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, see, your enemies make a tumult: and they that hate you have lifted up the head.
3 They invent cunning plans to conspire against your people; they plot against those you treasure.
They have taken crafty counsel against your people, and consulted against your hidden ones.
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 cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 They all agree in their conspiracy; they've made a treaty together to attack you—
For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against you:
6 the people of Edom, the Ishmaelites, Moab, and the Hagirites;
The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 the people of Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, Philistia, and the inhabitants of Tyre.
Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;
8 Assyria too has joined them, allied with the descendants of Lot. (Selah)
Assur also is joined with them: they have helped the children of Lot. (Selah)
9 Do to them what you did to Midian, what you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River.
Do to them as to the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:
10 They were destroyed at Endor and became like manure to fertilize the ground.
Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth.
11 Make their leaders like Oreb and Zeeb; all their rulers like Zebah and Zalmunna,
Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yes, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:
12 for they said, “Let's take the pastures of God for ourselves!”
Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.
13 My God, make them like whirling tumbleweeds, chaff blown away by the wind.
O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
14 Just like fire that burns the forest, a flame that sets fire to the mountains,
As the fire burns a wood, and as the flame sets the mountains on fire;
15 in the same way chase them down with your storm, terrify them with your whirlwind.
So persecute them with your tempest, and make them afraid with your storm.
16 Shame them in defeat so that they come to you, Lord!
Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek your name, O LORD.
17 Make them ashamed, terrify them forever so that they die in disgrace.
Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yes, let them be put to shame, and perish:
18 Let them understand that you alone, called the Lord, are the Most High who rules over all the earth.
That men may know that you, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, are the most high over all the earth.
