Psalms 83
1 A song, a psalm of Asaph. Do not keep silent, O God: hold not your peace, be not still, God.
O God, keep thou not silence. Hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
2 For see! Your enemies roar, those who hate you lift up their heads,
For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult, and those who hate thee have lifted up the head.
3 laying crafty plans for your people, and plotting against those you treasure.
They take crafty counsel against thy people, and consult together against thy hidden ones.
4 “Come, let us wipe them out as a nation, so Israel’s name will be mentioned 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, conspiring with one accord, they have made a league against you
For they have consulted together with one consent. They make a covenant against thee:
6 Tents of Edom, and Ishmaelites, Moab, and the Hagrites.
the tents of Edom, and the Ishmaelites, Moab, and the Hagarenes,
7 Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, Philistia, with the people of Tyre;
Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre,
8 Syria, too, is confederate, they have strengthened the children of Lot. (Selah)
Assyria also is joined with them; they have helped the sons of Lot. (Selah)
9 Deal with them as you dealt with Midian, with Sisera, with Jabin, at the torrent of Kishon,
Do thou to them as to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon,
10 who at Endor were destroyed, and became dung for the field.
who perished at Endor, who became as dung for the earth.
11 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
Make their ranking men like Oreb and Zeeb, yea, all their rulers like Zebah and Zalmunna,
12 who said, “Let us take for ourselves the meadows of God.”
who said, Let us take to ourselves in possession the habitations of God.
13 Whirl them, my God, like dust, like stubble before the wind.
O my God, make them like the whirling dust, as stubble before the wind,
14 As the fire that kindles the forest, as flame that sets mountains ablaze,
as the fire that burns the forest, and as the flame that sets the mountains on fire.
15 so with your tempest pursue them, terrify them with your hurricane.
So pursue them with thy tempest, and terrify them with thy storm.
16 Make them blush with shame; until they seek your name, O Lord.
Fill their faces with confusion, that they may seek thy name, O Jehovah.
17 Everlasting shame and confusion, disgrace and destruction be theirs.
Let them be put to shame and dismayed forever. Yea, let them be confounded and perish,
18 Teach those who you alone are most high over all the earth.
that they may know that thou alone, whose name is Jehovah, are the Most High over all the earth.
