PSALMS
CHAPTER 83

A song. A psalm of Asaph.

¹ O God, do not keep silent;
be not quiet, O God, be not still.
² See how your enemies are astir,
how your foes rear their heads.
³ With cunning they conspire against your people;
they plot against those you cherish.
⁴ "Come," they say, "let us destroy them as a nation,
that the name of Israel be remembered no more."

⁵ With one mind they plot together;
they form an alliance against you-
⁶ the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,
of Moab and the Hagrites,
⁷ Gebal, ^[1] Ammon and Amalek,
Philistia, with the people of Tyre.
⁸ Even Assyria has joined them
to lend strength to the descendants of Lot.
Selah

⁹ Do to them as you did to Midian,
as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon,
¹⁰ who perished at Endor
and became like refuse on the ground.
¹¹ Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb,
all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
¹² who said, "Let us take possession
of the pasturelands of God."

¹³ Make them like tumbleweed, O my God,
like chaff before the wind.
¹⁴ As fire consumes the forest
or a flame sets the mountains ablaze,
¹⁵ so pursue them with your tempest
and terrify them with your storm.
¹⁶ Cover their faces with shame
so that men will seek your name, O LORD .

¹⁷ May they ever be ashamed and dismayed;
may they perish in disgrace.
¹⁸ Let them know that you, whose name is the LORD -
that you alone are the Most High over all the earth.

Footnotes

1. 83:7 That is, Byblos

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