< Psalms 83 >

1 A song. A Psalm by Asaph. God, don’t keep silent. Don’t keep silent, and don’t be still, God.
“A psalm of Asaph.” O God! keep 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 roar, And they who hate thee lift up their heads.
3 They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones.
For they form secret plots against thy people, And consult together against thy chosen ones.
4 “Come,” they say, “let’s destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”
“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 For they have conspired together with one mind. They form an alliance against you.
With one consent they consult together, Against thee do they form a league, —
6 The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagrites;
The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Of Moab and the Hagarenes,
7 Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, The Philistines, with the inhabitants of Tyre.
8 Assyria also is joined with them. They have helped the children 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 to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon;
Do to them as to the Midianites, As to Sisera, as to Jabin at the brook Kison,
10 who perished at Endor, who became as dung for the earth.
Who perished at Endor, And were trampled like dung to the earth.
11 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
Make their chiefs like Oreb and Zeeb; Yea, all their princes as Zeba and Zalmunna!
12 who said, “Let’s take possession of God’s pasture lands.”
Who say, “Let us seize on God's habitations!”
13 My God, make them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind.
Make them, O my God! like whirling chaff; Like stubble before the wind!
14 As the fire that burns the forest, as the flame that sets the mountains on fire,
As fire consumeth the forest, And as flame setteth the mountains in a blaze,
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.
Cover their faces with shame, That they may seek thy name, O LORD!
17 Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish;
Let them be confounded! Yea, let them be put to shame, 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 thy name alone is Jehovah; That thou art the Most High over all the earth.

< Psalms 83 >