Psalms 83
1 A song. A psalm of Asaph. God, do not be silent! Do not ignore us and remain unmoved, God.
“A song or psalm of Assaph.” O God, take no rest for thyself: be not silent and keep not still, O God!
2 Look, your enemies are making a commotion, and those who hate you have raised their heads.
For, lo, thy enemies make a tumult, and they that hate thee have lifted up their head.
3 They conspire against your people and plan together against your protected ones.
Against thy people they take crafty secret device, and they consult against those whom thou protectest.
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; and the name of Israel shall be remembered no more.
5 They have schemed together with one strategy; against you they have made an alliance.
For they have consulted cordially together; against thee they make a covenant:
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; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;
8 Assyria also is allied with them; they are helping the descendants of Lot. (Selah)
Also Asshur is joined with them; they have become an arm unto the children 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 unto them as [unto] Midian; as to Sissera, as to Jabin, at the brook Kishon:
10 They perished at Endor and became like manure for the earth.
Who were annihilated at 'En-dor; they became as dung for the ground.
11 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, and all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna.
Render them, their nobles, like 'Oreb, and like Zeeb; yea, like Zebach and like Zalmunna' all their princes;
12 They said, “Let us take for ourselves the pastures of God.”
Who said, Let us conquer for ourselves the dwellings of God,
13 My God, make them like the whirling dust, like chaff before the wind,
O my God, render them like the thistle-down, like 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 burneth up a forest, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire:
15 Chase them with your strong wind, and terrify them with your windstorm.
So pursue them with thy storm, and with thy whirlwind do thou terrify them.
16 Fill their faces with shame so that they might seek your name, Yahweh.
Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek thy name, O Lord!
17 May they be put to shame and be terrified forever; may they perish in disgrace.
Let them be made ashamed and terrified for ever and aye; yea, let them be put to the blush 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, whose name is the Eternal, art by thyself alone, the Most High over all the earth.
