Psalms 83
1 [A song. A Psalm by Asaph.] God, do not be silent. Do not be deaf, and do not be inactive, God.
“A song or psalm of Assaph.” O God, take no rest for thyself: be not silent and keep not still, O God!
2 For, look, your enemies make an uproar. Those who hate you are hostile.
For, lo, thy enemies make a tumult, and they that hate thee have lifted up their head.
3 They devise crafty plans against your people, and conspire together against your treasured ones.
Against thy people they take crafty secret device, and they consult against those whom thou protectest.
4 They say, "Come, and let us annihilate them as a nation; let the name of Israel may be remembered no more."
They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; and the name of Israel shall be remembered no more.
5 For they plot a unified strategy; they make a covenant against you;
For they have consulted cordially together; against thee they make a covenant:
6 the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab, and the Hagrites,
The tents of Edom, and the Ishmaelites: Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre.
Gebal, and 'Ammon, and 'Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;
8 Assyria too is joined with them; they lend support to the descendants of Lot. (Selah)
Also Asshur is joined with them; they have become an arm unto the children of Lot. (Selah)
9 Do to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin at the Kishon River,
Do unto them as [unto] Midian; as to Sissera, as to Jabin, at the brook Kishon:
10 who were destroyed at Endor, who became manure for the ground.
Who were annihilated at 'En-dor; they became as dung for the ground.
11 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
Render them, their nobles, like 'Oreb, and like Zeeb; yea, like Zebach and like Zalmunna' all their princes;
12 who said, "Let us take possession for ourselves the pastures of God."
Who said, Let us conquer for ourselves the dwellings of God,
13 My God, make them like tumbleweed; like dead weeds blown by the wind.
O my God, render them like the thistle-down, like stubble before the wind.
14 Like a fire that consumes a forest, and like the flames that consume the mountains,
As the fire burneth up a forest, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire:
15 so pursue them with your gale winds, and terrify them with your storm.
So pursue them with thy storm, and with thy whirlwind do thou terrify them.
16 Cover their faces with shame, so that they might seek your name, Jehovah.
Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek thy name, O Lord!
17 Let them be put to shame and terrified forever; let them perish in disgrace,
Let them be made ashamed and terrified for ever and aye; yea, let them be put to the blush and perish:
18 that they will know that you alone, whose name is Jehovah, are the Most High over all the earth.
That they may know that thou, whose name is the Eternal, art by thyself alone, the Most High over all the earth.
