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 Psalme committed to Asaph. Keep not thou silence, O God: bee not still, and cease not, O God.
2 For, look, your enemies make an uproar. Those who hate you are hostile.
For lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee, haue lifted vp the head.
3 They devise crafty plans against your people, and conspire together against your treasured ones.
They haue taken craftie counsell against thy people, and haue consulted against thy secret ones.
4 They say, "Come, and let us annihilate them as a nation; let the name of Israel may be remembered no more."
They haue said, Come and let vs cut them off from being a nation: and let the name of Israel be no more in remembrance.
5 For they plot a unified strategy; they make a covenant against you;
For they haue consulted together in heart, and haue made a league against thee:
6 the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab, and the Hagrites,
The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Agarims:
7 Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre.
Gebal and Ammon, and Amalech, the Philistims with the inhabitants of Tyrus:
8 Assyria too is joined with them; they lend support to the descendants of Lot. (Selah)
Asshur also is ioyned with them: they haue bene an arme to the children of Lot. (Selah)
9 Do to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin at the Kishon River,
Doe thou to them as vnto the Midianites: as to Sisera and as to Iabin at the riuer of Kishon.
10 who were destroyed at Endor, who became manure for the ground.
They perished at En-dor, and were dung for the earth.
11 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
Make them, euen their princes like Oreb and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes like Zebah and like Zalmuna.
12 who said, "Let us take possession for ourselves the pastures of God."
Which haue said, Let vs take for our possession the habitations of God.
13 My God, make them like tumbleweed; like dead weeds blown by the wind.
O my God, make them like vnto a wheele, and as the stubble before the winde.
14 Like a fire that consumes a forest, and like the flames that consume the mountains,
As the fire burneth the forest, and as the flame setteth the mountaines on fire:
15 so pursue them with your gale winds, and terrify them with your storm.
So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraide with thy storme.
16 Cover their faces with shame, so that they might seek your name, LORD.
Fill their faces with shame, that they may seeke thy Name, O Lord.
17 Let them be put to shame and terrified forever; let them perish in disgrace,
Let them be confounded and troubled for euer: yea, let them be put to shame and perish,
18 that they will know that you alone, whose name is the LORD, are the Most High over all the earth.
That they may knowe that thou, which art called Iehouah, art alone, euen the most High ouer all the earth.
