< Psalms 83 >

1 A SONG. A PSALM OF ASAPH. O God, let there be no silence to You, Do not be silent, nor be quiet, O God.
A Song [or] Psalm of Asaph. Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
2 For behold, Your enemies roar, And those hating You have lifted up the head,
For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
3 They take crafty counsel against Your people, And consult against Your hidden ones.
They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, “Come, and we cut them off from [being] a nation, And the name of Israel is not remembered anymore.”
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 consulted in heart together, They make a covenant against You,
For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:
6 Tents of Edom, and Ishmaelites, Moab, and the Hagarenes,
The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia with inhabitants of Tyre,
Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;
8 Asshur is also joined with them, They have been an arm to sons of Lot. (Selah)
Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. (Selah)
9 Do to them as Midian, As Sisera, as Jabin, at the Brook of Kishon.
Do unto them as [unto] the Midianites; as [to] Sisera, as [to] Jabin, at the brook of Kison:
10 They were destroyed at Endor, They were dung for the ground!
[Which] perished at Endor: they became [as] dung for the earth.
11 Make their nobles as Oreb and as Zeeb, And as Zebah and Zalmunna—all their princes,
Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:
12 Who have said, “Let us occupy the pastures of God for ourselves.”
Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.
13 O my God, make them as a rolling thing, As stubble before wind.
O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
14 As a fire burns a forest, And as a flame sets hills on fire,
As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;
15 So You pursue them with Your whirlwind, And trouble them with Your windstorm.
So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.
16 Fill their faces [with] shame, And they seek Your Name, O YHWH.
Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.
17 They are ashamed and troubled forever, Indeed, they are confounded and lost.
Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:
18 And they know that You—Your Name [is] YHWH—By Yourself [are] the Most High over all the earth!
That [men] may know that thou, whose name alone [is] JEHOVAH, [art] the most high over all the earth.

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