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 Song, a Psalm of Asaph. O God, keep not Thou silence; hold not Thy peace, and be not still, O God.

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

For, lo, Thine enemies are in an uproar; and they that hate Thee have lifted up the head.

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

They hold crafty converse against Thy people, and take counsel against Thy treasured 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, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.'

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

For they have consulted together with one consent; against Thee do they make a covenant;

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

The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagrites;

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

Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;

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

Assyria also is joined with them; they have been an arm to the children of Lot. (Selah)

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

Do Thou unto them as unto Midian; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook Kishon;

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

Who were destroyed at En-dor; they became as dung for the earth.

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

Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, and like Zebah and Zalmunna all their princes;

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

Who said: 'Let us take to ourselves in possession the habitations of God.'

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

O my God, make them like the whirling dust; as stubble before the wind.

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

As the fire that burneth the forest, and as the flame that setteth the mountains ablaze;

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

So pursue them with Thy tempest, and affright them with Thy storm.

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

Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek Thy name, O LORD.

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

Let them be ashamed and affrighted for ever; yea, let them be abashed and perish;

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

That they may know that it is Thou alone whose name is the LORD, the Most High over all the earth.