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 [or] Psalm of Asaph. Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy 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, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: 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.
They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy 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 thee:
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 holpen 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 unto them as [unto] 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: yea, 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 burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;
15 in the same way chase them down with your storm, terrify them with your whirlwind.
So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.
16 Shame them in defeat so that they come to you, Lord!
Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.
17 Make them ashamed, terrify them forever so that they die in disgrace.
Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, 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 thou, whose name alone [is] JEHOVAH, [art] the most high over all the earth.
