Psalms 83
1 God, do not continue to be silent! Do not be quiet and say nothing,
A canticle of a psalm for Asaph. O God, who shall be like to thee? hold not thy peace, neither be thou still, O God.
2 because your enemies are rioting against you; those who hate you are rebelling against you!
For lo, thy enemies have made a noise: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
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 taken a malicious counsel against thy people, and have consulted against thy saints.
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 and let us destroy them, so that they be not a nation: and let 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 they have contrived with one consent: they have made a covenant together against thee,
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 tabernacles of the Edomites, and the Ismahelites: Moab, and the Agarens,
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 Amalec: the Philistines, with the inhabitants 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.
Yea, and the Assyrian also is joined with them: they are come to the aid of 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 thou didst to Madian and to Sisara: as to Jabin at the brook of Cisson.
10 You destroyed them at Endor [town], and their corpses [lay on] the ground and decayed.
Who perished at Endor: and became as dung for the earth.
11 Do to them things like you did to [Kings] Oreb and Zeeb; defeat their leaders like you defeated Zebah and Zalmunna,
Make their princes like Oreb, and Zeb, and Zebee, and Salmana. All their princes,
12 who said, “We will take for ourselves the land that [the Israelis say] belongs to God!”
Who have said: Let us possess the sanctuary of God for an inheritance.
13 My God, cause them [to disappear quickly] like whirling dust, like chaff that the wind blows away!
O my God, make them like a wheel; and as stubble before the wind.
14 Like a fire completely burns a forest and like flames burn in the mountains,
As fire which burneth the wood: and as a flame burning mountains:
15 expel them by sending storms; cause them to be terrified by your big storms/hurricanes!
So shalt thou pursue them with thy tempest: and shalt trouble them in thy wrath.
16 Cause them [SYN] to be very ashamed in order that they will admit that you are very powerful.
Fill their faces with shame; and they shall seek thy 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 ashamed and troubled for ever and ever: and let them be confounded and perish.
18 Cause them to know that you, whose name is Yahweh, are the supreme ruler over everything on the earth.
And let them know that the Lord is thy name: thou alone art the most High over all the earth.
