< Psalms 83 >

1 A song. A Psalm by Asaph. God, don’t keep silent. Don’t keep silent, and don’t be still, God.
O God, keep thou not silence. Hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
2 For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.
For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult, and those who hate thee have lifted up the head.
3 They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones.
They take crafty counsel against thy people, and consult together against thy hidden ones.
4 “Come,” they say, “let’s destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”
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 For they have conspired together with one mind. They form an alliance against you.
For they have consulted together with one consent. They make a covenant against thee:
6 The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagrites;
the tents of Edom, and the Ishmaelites, Moab, and the Hagarenes,
7 Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre,
8 Assyria also is joined with them. They have helped the children 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 to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon;
Do thou to them as to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon,
10 who perished at Endor, who became as dung for the earth.
who perished at Endor, who became as dung for the earth.
11 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
Make their ranking men like Oreb and Zeeb, yea, all their rulers like Zebah and Zalmunna,
12 who said, “Let’s take possession of God’s pasture lands.”
who said, Let us take to ourselves in possession the habitations of God.
13 My God, make them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind.
O my God, make them like the whirling dust, as stubble before the wind,
14 As the fire that burns the forest, as 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 so pursue them with your tempest, and terrify them with your storm.
So pursue them with thy tempest, and terrify them with thy storm.
16 Fill their faces with confusion, that they may seek your name, LORD.
Fill their faces with confusion, that they may seek thy name, O Jehovah.
17 Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish;
Let them be put to shame and dismayed forever. Yea, let them be confounded and perish,
18 that they may know that you alone, whose name is the LORD, 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.

< Psalms 83 >