Psalms 83
1 God, do not continue to be silent! Do not be quiet and say nothing,
“A psalm of Asaph.” O God! keep not silence! Hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God!
2 because your enemies are rioting against you; those who hate you are rebelling against you!
For, lo! thine enemies roar, And they who hate thee lift 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.
For they form secret plots against thy people, And consult together against thy chosen ones.
4 They say, “Come, we must destroy their nation, with the result that no one will remember that Israel ever existed!”
“Come,” say they, “let us blot them out from the number of the nations, That the name of Israel may no more be remembered!”
5 They have agreed on [what they want to do to destroy Israel], and they have formed an alliance against you.
With one consent they consult together, Against thee do they form a league, —
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 Hagarenes,
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, 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.
The Assyrians also are joined with them; They lend their strength to the children 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 to the Midianites, As to Sisera, as to Jabin at the brook Kison,
10 You destroyed them at Endor [town], and their corpses [lay on] the ground and decayed.
Who perished at Endor, And were trampled like dung to 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 chiefs like Oreb and Zeeb; Yea, all their princes as Zeba and Zalmunna!
12 who said, “We will take for ourselves the land that [the Israelis say] belongs to God!”
Who say, “Let us seize on God's habitations!”
13 My God, cause them [to disappear quickly] like whirling dust, like chaff that the wind blows away!
Make them, O my God! like whirling chaff; Like stubble before the wind!
14 Like a fire completely burns a forest and like flames burn in the mountains,
As fire consumeth the forest, And as flame setteth the mountains in a blaze,
15 expel them by sending storms; cause them to be terrified by your big storms/hurricanes!
So pursue them with thy tempest, And terrify them with thy 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 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! 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 know that thy name alone is Jehovah; That thou art the Most High over all the earth.
