< Psalms 83 >

1 Keep not you silence, O God: hold not your peace, and be not still, O God.
A song. A Psalm by Asaph. God, don’t keep silent. Don’t keep silent, and don’t be still, God.
2 For, see, your enemies make a tumult: and they that hate you have lifted up the head.
For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.
3 They have taken crafty counsel against your people, and consulted against your hidden ones.
They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones.
4 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.
“Come,” they say, “let’s destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against you:
For they have conspired together with one mind. They form an alliance against you.
6 The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagrites;
7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;
Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
8 Assur also is joined with them: they have helped the children of Lot. (Selah)
Assyria also is joined with them. They have helped the children of Lot. (Selah)
9 Do to them as to the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:
Do to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon;
10 Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth.
who perished at Endor, who became as dung for the earth.
11 Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yes, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:
Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
12 Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.
who said, “Let’s take possession of God’s pasture lands.”
13 O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
My God, make them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind.
14 As the fire burns a wood, and as the flame sets the mountains on fire;
As the fire that burns the forest, as the flame that sets the mountains on fire,
15 So persecute them with your tempest, and make them afraid with your storm.
so pursue them with your tempest, and terrify them with your storm.
16 Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek your name, O LORD.
Fill their faces with confusion, that they may seek your name, LORD.
17 Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yes, let them be put to shame, and perish:
Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish;
18 That men may know that you, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, are the most high over all the earth.
that they may know that you alone, whose name is the LORD, are the Most High over all the earth.

< Psalms 83 >