Psalms 83

1 A Song of a Psalm for Asaph. O God, who shall be compared to you? be not silent, neither be still, O God.

A Canticle Psalm of Asaph. O God, who will ever be like you? Do not be silent, and do not be unmoved, O God.

2 For behold, your enemies have made a noise; and they that hate you have lifted up the head.

For behold, your enemies have sounded off, and those who hate you have carried out a head.

3 Against your people they have craftily imagined a device, and have taken counsel against your saints.

They have acted with malice in counsel over your people, and they have plotted against your holy ones.

4 They have said, Come, and let us utterly destroy them out of the nation; and let the name of Israel be remembered no more at all.

They have said, “Come, let us scatter them from the nations and not allow the name of Israel to be remembered any longer.”

5 For they have taken counsel together with one consent: they have made a confederacy against you;

For they plotted unanimously. Joined together against you, they ordained a covenant:

6 even the tents of the Idumeans, and the Ismaelites; Moab, and the Agarenes;

the tabernacle of Edomites and Ishmaelites, and Moab and the Hagarites,

7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalec; the Philistines also, with them that dwell at Tyre.

and Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek, the foreigners among the inhabitants of Tyre.

8 Yes, Assur too is come with them: they have become a help to the children of Lot. (Pause)

For even Assur comes with them. They have become the helpers of the sons of Lot.

9 Do you to them as to Madiam, and to Sisera; as to Jabin at the brook of Kison.

Do to them as you did to Midian and Sisera, just as to Jabin at the torrent of Kishon.

10 They were utterly destroyed at Aendor: they became as dung for the earth.

They perished at Endor, and they became like the dung of the earth.

11 Make their princes as Oreb and Zeb, and Zebee and Salmana; [even] all their princes:

Set their leaders to be like Oreb and Zeeb, and Zebah and Zalmunna: all their leaders

12 who said, let us take to ourselves the altar of God as an inheritance.

who said, “Let us possess the Sanctuary of God for an inheritance.”

13 O my God, make them as a wheel; as stubble before the face of the wind.

My God, set them like a wheel, and like stubble before the face of the wind.

14 As fire which shall burn up a wood, as the flame may consume the mountains;

Set them like a fire burning up the forest, and like a flame burning up the mountains.

15 so shall you persecute them with your tempest, and trouble them in your anger.

So will you pursue them in your tempest, and disturb them in your wrath.

16 Fill their faces with dishonor; so shall they seek your name, O Lord.

Fill their faces with shame, and they will seek your name, O Lord.

17 Let them be ashamed and troubled for evermore; yes, let them be confounded and destroyed.

Let them be ashamed and troubled, from age to age, and let them be confounded and perish.

18 And let them know that your name is Lord; that you alone are Most High over all the earth.

And let them know that the Lord is your name. You alone are the Most High in all the earth.