Psalms 83

1 God, do not continue to be silent! Do not be quiet and say nothing,

A Song, a Melody of Asaph. O God, Do not keep quiet, Do not hold 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! thine enemies, are tumultuous, And, they who 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.

Against thy people, they craftily devise a secret plot, And conspire against thy treasured ones.

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 wipe them out from being a nation, That the name of Israel may 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 taken counsel with one heart, Against thee—a covenant, would they solemnize—

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 dwellers in 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 hath joined herself with them, They have become an arm to the sons 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.

Make them like Midian, like Sisera, like Jabin, by the torrent of Kishon;

10 You destroyed them at Endor [town], and their corpses [lay on] the ground and decayed.

They perished at En-dor, They become manure for the soil!

11 Do to them things like you did to [Kings] Oreb and Zeeb; defeat their leaders like you defeated Zebah and Zalmunna,

Make them—their nobles—like Oreb and like Zeeb, And, like Zebah and like Zalmunna, all their princes:

12 who said, “We will take for ourselves the land that [the Israelis say] belongs to God!”

Who said—Let us take a possession for ourselves, The pastures 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, As whirling [dust], As chaff before a wind;

14 Like a fire completely burns a forest and like flames burn in the mountains,

As a fire burneth a forest, —And as a flame setteth mountains ablaze,

15 expel them by sending storms; cause them to be terrified by your big storms/hurricanes!

So, wilt thou pursue them with thy tempest, —And, with thy storm-wind, wilt terrify them:

16 Cause them [SYN] to be very ashamed in order that they will admit that you are very powerful.

Fill thou their faces with dishonour, That men may seek thy Name, O Yahweh;

17 Cause them to be forever disgraced [because of being defeated], and cause them to die while they are still disgraced.

Let them turn pale, and be terrified to futurity, Yea let them blush, and perish:

18 Cause them to know that you, whose name is Yahweh, are the supreme ruler over everything on the earth.

That men may know that, thou, Whose Name alone is Yahweh, Art Most High over all the earth.