Psalms 83

1 A song a psalm of Asaph. O God [let] not silence [belong] to you may not you be silent and may not you be inactive O God.

A song. A Psalm by Asaph. God, don’t keep silent. Don’t keep silent, and don’t be still, God.

2 For here! enemies your they are in an uproar! and [those who] hate you they have lifted a head.

For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.

3 On people your they make crafty counsel so they may consult together on treasured [ones] your.

They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones.

4 They have said come and let us annihilate them from a nation and not it will be remembered [the] name of Israel again.

“Come,” they say, “let’s destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”

5 For they have consulted heart together on you a covenant they are making.

For they have conspired together with one mind. They form an alliance against you.

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 and Ammon and Amalek Philistia with [the] inhabitants of Tyre.

Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;

8 Also Assyria it has joined itself with them they have become an arm for [the] children of Lot (Selah)

Assyria also is joined with them. They have helped the children of Lot. (Selah)

9 Do to them like Midian like Sisera like Jabin at [the] wadi of Kishon.

Do to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon;

10 They were destroyed at En-dor they became dung for the ground.

who perished at Endor, who became as dung for the earth.

11 Make them noble [people] their like Oreb and like Zeeb and like Zebah and like Zalmunna all princes their.

Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,

12 Who they said let us take possession of for ourselves [the] pastures of God.

who said, “Let’s take possession of God’s pasture lands.”

13 O God my make them like whirling dust like chaff before a wind.

My God, make them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind.

14 Like a fire [which] it burns a forest and like a flame [which] it sets ablaze mountains.

As the fire that burns the forest, as the flame that sets the mountains on fire,

15 So you will pursue them with storm your and with storm-wind your you will terrify them.

so pursue them with your tempest, and terrify them with your storm.

16 Fill faces their shame so they may seek name your O Yahweh.

Fill their faces with confusion, that they may seek your name, LORD.

17 May they be ashamed and they may be dismayed until perpetuity and may they be abashed and they may perish.

Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish;

18 And they may know that you name your [is] Yahweh to alone you [the] Most High over all the earth.

that they may know that you alone, whose name is the LORD, are the Most High over all the earth.