Psalms 83
1 A song. A psalm of Asaph. God, do not be silent! Do not ignore us and remain unmoved, God.
O God, keep thou not silence. Hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
2 Look, your enemies are making a commotion, and those who hate you have raised their heads.
For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult, and those who hate thee have lifted up the head.
3 They conspire against your people and plan together against your protected ones.
They take crafty counsel against thy people, and consult together against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, “Come, and let us destroy them as a nation. Then the name of Israel will no longer be remembered.”
They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 They have schemed together with one strategy; against you they have made an alliance.
For they have consulted together with one consent. They make a covenant against thee:
6 This includes the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, and the people of Moab and the Hagrites, who plot together with
the tents of Edom, and the Ishmaelites, Moab, and the Hagarenes,
7 Gebal, Ammon, Amalek; it also includes Philistia and the inhabitants of Tyre.
Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre,
8 Assyria also is allied with them; they are helping the descendants of Lot. (Selah)
Assyria also is joined with them; they have helped the sons of Lot. (Selah)
9 Do to them as you did to Midian, as you did to Sisera and to Jabin at the Kishon River.
Do thou to them as to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon,
10 They perished at Endor and became like manure for the earth.
who perished at Endor, who became as dung for the earth.
11 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, and all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna.
Make their ranking men like Oreb and Zeeb, yea, all their rulers like Zebah and Zalmunna,
12 They said, “Let us take for ourselves the pastures of God.”
who said, Let us take to ourselves in possession the habitations of God.
13 My God, make them like the whirling dust, like chaff before the wind,
O my God, make them like the whirling dust, as stubble before the wind,
14 like the fire that burns the forest, and like the flame that sets the mountains on fire.
as the fire that burns the forest, and as the flame that sets the mountains on fire.
15 Chase them with your strong wind, and terrify them with your windstorm.
So pursue them with thy tempest, and terrify them with thy storm.
16 Fill their faces with shame so that they might seek your name, Yahweh.
Fill their faces with confusion, that they may seek thy name, O Jehovah.
17 May they be put to shame and be terrified forever; may they perish in disgrace.
Let them be put to shame and dismayed forever. Yea, let them be confounded and perish,
18 Then they will know that you alone, Yahweh, are the Most High over all the earth.
that they may know that thou alone, whose name is Jehovah, are the Most High over all the earth.
