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, do not keep quiet: let your lips be open and take no rest, O God.
2 because your enemies are rioting against you; those who hate you are rebelling against you!
For see! those who make war on you are out of control; your haters are lifting up 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.
They have made wise designs against your people, talking together against those whom you keep in a secret place.
4 They say, “Come, we must destroy their nation, with the result that no one will remember that Israel ever existed!”
They have said, Come, let us put an end to them as a nation; so that the name of Israel may go out of man's memory.
5 They have agreed on [what they want to do to destroy Israel], and they have formed an alliance against you.
For they have all come to an agreement; they are all joined together 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; Moab and the Hagarites;
7 Gebal [people-group], the Ammon [people-group], the Amalek [people-group], the Philistia [people-group], and the people of Tyre [city].
Gebal and Ammon and Amalek; the Philistines and 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.
Assur is joined with them; they have become the support of the children of Lot. (Selah)
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 what you did to the Midianites; what you did to Sisera and Jabin, at the stream of Kishon:
10 You destroyed them at Endor [town], and their corpses [lay on] the ground and decayed.
Who came to destruction at En-dor; their bodies became dust and waste.
11 Do to them things like you did to [Kings] Oreb and Zeeb; defeat their leaders like you defeated Zebah and Zalmunna,
Make their chiefs like Oreb and Zeeb; and all their rulers like Zebah and Zalmunna:
12 who said, “We will take for ourselves the land that [the Israelis say] belongs to God!”
Who have said, Let us take for our heritage the resting-place of God.
13 My God, cause them [to disappear quickly] like whirling dust, like chaff that the wind blows away!
O my God, make them like the rolling dust; like dry stems before the wind.
14 Like a fire completely burns a forest and like flames burn in the mountains,
As fire burning a wood, and as a flame causing fire on the mountains,
15 expel them by sending storms; cause them to be terrified by your big storms/hurricanes!
So go after them with your strong wind, and let them be full of fear because of your storm.
16 Cause them [SYN] to be very ashamed in order that they will admit that you are very powerful.
Let their faces be full of shame; so that they may give honour to 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.
Let them be overcome and troubled for ever; let them be put to shame and come to destruction;
18 Cause them to know that you, whose name is Yahweh, are the supreme ruler over everything on the earth.
So that men may see that you only, whose name is Yahweh, are Most High over all the earth.
