Psalms 83
1 God, do not continue to be silent! Do not be quiet and say nothing,
A song. A Psalm of Asaph. O God, be not silent; be not speechless; be not still, O God.
2 because your enemies are rioting against you; those who hate you are rebelling against you!
See how Your enemies rage, how Your foes have reared their heads.
3 They are secretly planning to do things to harm [us], your people; they are (conspiring together against/planning how to defeat) the people whom you protect.
With cunning they scheme against Your people and conspire against those You cherish,
4 They say, “Come, we must destroy their nation, with the result that no one will remember that Israel ever existed!”
saying, “Come, let us erase them as a nation; may the name of Israel be remembered no more.”
5 They have agreed on [what they want to do to destroy Israel], and they have formed an alliance against you.
For with one mind they plot together, they form an alliance against You—
6 [The people who have done that are] the people of Edom [region], the descendants of Ishmael [who live on the east side of the Jordan River], the Moab [people-group], the descendants of Hagar [who also live on the east side of the Jordan River],
the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, of Moab and the Hagrites,
7 Gebal [people-group], the Ammon [people-group], the Amalek [people-group], the Philistia [people-group], and the people of Tyre [city].
of Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, of Philistia with the people of Tyre.
8 [The people of] have joined them; they are strong allies of the [Moab and Ammon people-groups, who are] descendants of [Abraham’s nephew] Lot.
Even Assyria has joined them, lending strength to the sons of Lot.
9 [God], do to those people things like you did to the Midian [people-group], like [you did] to Sisera and Jabin at Kishon River.
Do to them as You did to Midian, as to Sisera and Jabin at the River Kishon,
10 You destroyed them at Endor [town], and their corpses [lay on] the ground and decayed.
who perished at Endor and became like dung on the ground.
11 Do to them things like you did to [Kings] Oreb and Zeeb; defeat their leaders like you defeated Zebah and Zalmunna,
Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, and all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
12 who said, “We will take for ourselves the land that [the Israelis say] belongs to God!”
who said, “Let us possess for ourselves the pastures of God.”
13 My God, cause them [to disappear quickly] like whirling dust, like chaff that the wind blows away!
Make them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind.
14 Like a fire completely burns a forest and like flames burn in the mountains,
As fire consumes a forest, as a flame sets the mountains ablaze,
15 expel them by sending storms; cause them to be terrified by your big storms/hurricanes!
so pursue them with Your tempest, and terrify them with Your storm.
16 Cause them [SYN] to be very ashamed in order that they will admit that you are very powerful.
Cover their faces with shame, that they may seek Your name, O LORD.
17 Cause them to be forever disgraced [because of being defeated], and cause them to die while they are still disgraced.
May they be ever ashamed and terrified; may they perish in disgrace.
18 Cause them to know that you, whose name is Yahweh, are the supreme ruler over everything on the earth.
May they know that You alone, whose name is the LORD, are Most High over all the earth.
