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. A Psalm by Asaph.] God, do not be silent. Do not be deaf, and do not be inactive, 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, look, your enemies make an uproar. Those who hate you are hostile.
3 They invent cunning plans to conspire against your people; they plot against those you treasure.
They devise crafty plans against your people, and conspire together against your treasured ones.
4 They say, “Come on! Let's destroy them as a nation so the name ‘Israel’ will be completely forgotten.”
They say, "Come, and let us annihilate them as a nation; let the name of Israel may be remembered no more."
5 They all agree in their conspiracy; they've made a treaty together to attack you—
For they plot a unified strategy; they make a covenant against you;
6 the people of Edom, the Ishmaelites, Moab, and the Hagirites;
the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab, and the Hagrites,
7 the people of Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, Philistia, and the inhabitants of Tyre.
Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre.
8 Assyria too has joined them, allied with the descendants of Lot. (Selah)
Assyria too is joined with them; they lend support to the descendants 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 you did to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin at the Kishon River,
10 They were destroyed at Endor and became like manure to fertilize the ground.
who were destroyed at Endor, who became manure for the ground.
11 Make their leaders like Oreb and Zeeb; all their rulers like Zebah and Zalmunna,
Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
12 for they said, “Let's take the pastures of God for ourselves!”
who said, "Let us take possession for ourselves the pastures of God."
13 My God, make them like whirling tumbleweeds, chaff blown away by the wind.
My God, make them like tumbleweed; like dead weeds blown by the wind.
14 Just like fire that burns the forest, a flame that sets fire to the mountains,
Like a fire that consumes a forest, and like the flames that consume the mountains,
15 in the same way chase them down with your storm, terrify them with your whirlwind.
so pursue them with your gale winds, and terrify them with your storm.
16 Shame them in defeat so that they come to you, Lord!
Cover their faces with shame, so that they might seek your name, LORD.
17 Make them ashamed, terrify them forever so that they die in disgrace.
Let them be put to shame and terrified forever; let them perish in disgrace,
18 Let them understand that you alone, called the Lord, are the Most High who rules over all the earth.
that they will know that you alone, whose name is the LORD, are the Most High over all the earth.
