< Psalms 83 >

1 God, do not continue to be silent! Do not be quiet and say nothing,
שיר מזמור לאסף אלהים אל דמי לך אל תחרש ואל תשקט אל׃
2 because your enemies are rioting against you; those who hate you are rebelling against you!
כי הנה אויביך יהמיון ומשנאיך נשאו ראש׃
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.
על עמך יערימו סוד ויתיעצו על צפוניך׃
4 They say, “Come, we must destroy their nation, with the result that no one will remember that Israel ever existed!”
אמרו לכו ונכחידם מגוי ולא יזכר שם ישראל עוד׃
5 They have agreed on [what they want to do to destroy Israel], and they have formed an alliance against you.
כי נועצו לב יחדו עליך ברית יכרתו׃
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],
אהלי אדום וישמעאלים מואב והגרים׃
7 Gebal [people-group], the Ammon [people-group], the Amalek [people-group], the Philistia [people-group], and the people of Tyre [city].
גבל ועמון ועמלק פלשת עם ישבי צור׃
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.
גם אשור נלוה עמם היו זרוע לבני לוט סלה׃
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.
עשה להם כמדין כסיסרא כיבין בנחל קישון׃
10 You destroyed them at Endor [town], and their corpses [lay on] the ground and decayed.
נשמדו בעין דאר היו דמן לאדמה׃
11 Do to them things like you did to [Kings] Oreb and Zeeb; defeat their leaders like you defeated Zebah and Zalmunna,
שיתמו נדיבמו כערב וכזאב וכזבח וכצלמנע כל נסיכמו׃
12 who said, “We will take for ourselves the land that [the Israelis say] belongs to God!”
אשר אמרו נירשה לנו את נאות אלהים׃
13 My God, cause them [to disappear quickly] like whirling dust, like chaff that the wind blows away!
אלהי שיתמו כגלגל כקש לפני רוח׃
14 Like a fire completely burns a forest and like flames burn in the mountains,
כאש תבער יער וכלהבה תלהט הרים׃
15 expel them by sending storms; cause them to be terrified by your big storms/hurricanes!
כן תרדפם בסערך ובסופתך תבהלם׃
16 Cause them [SYN] to be very ashamed in order that they will admit that you are very powerful.
מלא פניהם קלון ויבקשו שמך יהוה׃
17 Cause them to be forever disgraced [because of being defeated], and cause them to die while they are still disgraced.
יבשו ויבהלו עדי עד ויחפרו ויאבדו׃
18 Cause them to know that you, whose name is Yahweh, are the supreme ruler over everything on the earth.
וידעו כי אתה שמך יהוה לבדך עליון על כל הארץ׃

< Psalms 83 >