Psalms 83
1 God, do not continue to be silent! Do not be quiet and say nothing,
A song, or Psalme committed to Asaph. Keep not thou silence, O God: bee not still, and cease not, O God.
2 because your enemies are rioting against you; those who hate you are rebelling against you!
For lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee, haue lifted vp 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 haue taken craftie counsell against thy people, and haue consulted against thy secret ones.
4 They say, “Come, we must destroy their nation, with the result that no one will remember that Israel ever existed!”
They haue said, Come and let vs cut them off from being a nation: and let the name of Israel be no more in remembrance.
5 They have agreed on [what they want to do to destroy Israel], and they have formed an alliance against you.
For they haue consulted together in heart, and haue made a league 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 Edom, and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Agarims:
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 Amalech, the Philistims with the inhabitants of Tyrus:
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.
Asshur also is ioyned with them: they haue bene an arme to 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.
Doe thou to them as vnto the Midianites: as to Sisera and as to Iabin at the riuer of Kishon.
10 You destroyed them at Endor [town], and their corpses [lay on] the ground and decayed.
They perished at En-dor, and were 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 them, euen their princes like Oreb and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes like Zebah and like Zalmuna.
12 who said, “We will take for ourselves the land that [the Israelis say] belongs to God!”
Which haue said, Let vs take for our possession the habitations 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 vnto a wheele, and as the stubble before the winde.
14 Like a fire completely burns a forest and like flames burn in the mountains,
As the fire burneth the forest, and as the flame setteth the mountaines on fire:
15 expel them by sending storms; cause them to be terrified by your big storms/hurricanes!
So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraide with thy storme.
16 Cause them [SYN] to be very ashamed in order that they will admit that you are very powerful.
Fill their faces with shame, that they may seeke 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 confounded and troubled for euer: yea, let them be put to shame and perish,
18 Cause them to know that you, whose name is Yahweh, are the supreme ruler over everything on the earth.
That they may knowe that thou, which art called Iehouah, art alone, euen the most High ouer all the earth.
