Psalms 83
1 A song. A psalm of Asaph. God, do not be silent! Do not ignore us and remain unmoved, God.
“A psalm of Asaph.” O God! keep 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 roar, And they who hate thee lift up their heads.
3 They conspire against your people and plan together against your protected ones.
For they form secret plots against thy people, And consult together against thy chosen ones.
4 They have said, “Come, and let us destroy them as a nation. Then the name of Israel will no longer be remembered.”
“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 schemed together with one strategy; against you they have made an alliance.
With one consent they consult together, Against thee do they form a league, —
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, Of 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)
The Assyrians also are joined with them; They lend their strength to the children of Lot.
9 Do to them as you did to Midian, as you did to Sisera and to Jabin at the Kishon River.
Do to them as to the Midianites, As to Sisera, as to Jabin at the brook Kison,
10 They perished at Endor and became like manure for the earth.
Who perished at Endor, And were trampled like dung to the earth.
11 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, and all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna.
Make their chiefs like Oreb and Zeeb; Yea, all their princes as Zeba and Zalmunna!
12 They said, “Let us take for ourselves the pastures of God.”
Who say, “Let us seize on God's habitations!”
13 My God, make them like the whirling dust, like chaff before the wind,
Make them, O my God! like whirling chaff; Like stubble before the wind!
14 like the fire that burns the forest, and like the flame that sets the mountains on fire.
As fire consumeth the forest, And as flame setteth the mountains in a blaze,
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.
Cover 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 confounded! Yea, let them be put to shame, and perish!
18 Then they will know that you alone, Yahweh, are the Most High over all the earth.
That they may know that thy name alone is Jehovah; That thou art the Most High over all the earth.
