< 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, a Psalm of Asaph. O God, keep not Thou silence; hold not Thy peace, and be not still, O God.
2 For, look, your enemies make an uproar. Those who hate you are hostile.
For, lo, Thine enemies are in an uproar; and they that hate Thee have lifted up the head.
3 They devise crafty plans against your people, and conspire together against your treasured ones.
They hold crafty converse against Thy people, and take counsel against Thy treasured ones.
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; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.'
5 For they plot a unified strategy; they make a covenant against you;
For they have consulted together with one consent; against Thee do 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 Hagrites;
7 Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre.
Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
8 Assyria too is joined with them; they lend support to the descendants of Lot. (Selah)
Assyria also is joined with them; they have been an arm 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,
Do Thou unto them as unto Midian; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook Kishon;
10 who were destroyed at Endor, who became manure for the ground.
Who were destroyed at En-dor; they became as dung for the earth.
11 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, and like Zebah and Zalmunna all their princes;
12 who said, "Let us take possession for ourselves the pastures of God."
Who said: 'Let us take to ourselves in 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 the whirling dust; as stubble before the wind.
14 Like a fire that consumes a forest, and like the flames that consume the mountains,
As the fire that burneth the forest, and as the flame that setteth the mountains ablaze;
15 so pursue them with your gale winds, and terrify them with your storm.
So pursue them with Thy tempest, and affright them with Thy storm.
16 Cover their faces with shame, so that they might seek your name, LORD.
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 ashamed and affrighted for ever; yea, let them be abashed 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 know that it is Thou alone whose name is the LORD, the Most High over all the earth.

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