< Psalms 83 >

1 [A song. A Psalm by Asaph.] God, do not be silent. Do not be deaf, and do not be inactive, God.
Keep not you silence, O God: hold not your peace, and be not still, O God.
2 For, look, your enemies make an uproar. Those who hate you are hostile.
For, see, your enemies make a tumult: and they that hate you have lifted up the head.
3 They devise crafty plans against your people, and conspire together against your treasured ones.
They have taken crafty counsel against your people, and consulted against your hidden 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: they are confederate against you:
6 the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab, and the Hagrites,
The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of 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)
Assur also is joined with them: they have helped 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 to them as to the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:
10 who were destroyed at Endor, who became manure for the ground.
Which perished at Endor: 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 like Zeeb: yes, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:
12 who said, "Let us take possession for ourselves the pastures of God."
Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.
13 My God, make them like tumbleweed; like dead weeds blown by the wind.
O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
14 Like a fire that consumes a forest, and like the flames that consume the mountains,
As the fire burns a wood, and as the flame sets the mountains on fire;
15 so pursue them with your gale winds, and terrify them with your storm.
So persecute them with your tempest, and make them afraid with your storm.
16 Cover their faces with shame, so that they might seek your name, LORD.
Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek your 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 ever; yes, 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 men may know that you, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, are the most high over all the earth.

< Psalms 83 >