< 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 Assaph.” O God, take no rest for thyself: be not silent and keep 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, thy enemies make a tumult, and they that hate thee have lifted up their head.
3 They invent cunning plans to conspire against your people; they plot against those you treasure.
Against thy people they take crafty secret device, and they consult against those whom thou protectest.
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; and the name of Israel shall be remembered no more.
5 They all agree in their conspiracy; they've made a treaty together to attack you—
For they have consulted cordially together; against thee they make a covenant:
6 the people of Edom, the Ishmaelites, Moab, and the Hagirites;
The tents of Edom, and the Ishmaelites: 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)
Also Asshur is joined with them; they have become an arm unto 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] Midian; as to Sissera, as to Jabin, at the brook Kishon:
10 They were destroyed at Endor and became like manure to fertilize the ground.
Who were annihilated at 'En-dor; they became as dung for the ground.
11 Make their leaders like Oreb and Zeeb; all their rulers like Zebah and Zalmunna,
Render them, their nobles, like 'Oreb, and like Zeeb; yea, like Zebach and like Zalmunna' all their princes;
12 for they said, “Let's take the pastures of God for ourselves!”
Who said, Let us conquer for ourselves the dwellings of God,
13 My God, make them like whirling tumbleweeds, chaff blown away by the wind.
O my God, render them like the thistle-down, like stubble before the wind.
14 Just like fire that burns the forest, a flame that sets fire to the mountains,
As the fire burneth up a forest, 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 pursue them with thy storm, and with thy whirlwind do thou terrify them.
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 made ashamed and terrified for ever and aye; yea, let them be put to the blush and perish:
18 Let them understand that you alone, called the Lord, are the Most High who rules over all the earth.
That they may know that thou, whose name is the Eternal, art by thyself alone, the Most High over all the earth.

< Psalms 83 >