< 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 psalm of Asaph.” O God! keep not 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 roar, And they who hate thee lift up their heads.
3 They devise crafty plans against your people, and conspire together against your treasured ones.
For they form secret plots against thy people, And consult together against thy chosen ones.
4 They say, "Come, and let us annihilate them as a nation; let the name of Israel may be remembered no more."
“Come,” say they, “let us blot them out from the number of the nations, That the name of Israel may no more be remembered!”
5 For they plot a unified strategy; they make a covenant against you;
With one consent they consult together, Against thee do they form a league, —
6 the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab, and the Hagrites,
The tents 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)
The Assyrians also are joined with them; They lend their strength to the children of Lot.
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 Kison,
10 who were destroyed at Endor, who became manure for the ground.
Who perished at Endor, And were trampled like dung to the earth.
11 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
Make their chiefs like Oreb and Zeeb; Yea, all their princes as Zeba and Zalmunna!
12 who said, "Let us take possession for ourselves the pastures of God."
Who say, “Let us seize on God's habitations!”
13 My God, make them like tumbleweed; like dead weeds blown by the wind.
Make them, O my God! like whirling chaff; Like stubble before the wind!
14 Like a fire that consumes a forest, and like the flames that consume the mountains,
As fire consumeth the forest, And as flame setteth the mountains in a blaze,
15 so pursue them with your gale winds, and terrify them with your storm.
So pursue them with thy tempest, And terrify them with thy storm!
16 Cover their faces with shame, so that they might seek your name, YHWH.
Cover 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 confounded! Yea, let them be put to shame, and perish!
18 that they will know that you alone, whose name is YHWH, are the Most High over all the earth.
That they may know that thy name alone is Jehovah; That thou art the Most High over all the earth.

< Psalms 83 >