Chapter 83

A song. A Psalm by Asaph.

¹God, don’t keep silent.

Don’t keep silent,

And don’t be still, God.

²For, behold, your enemies are stirred up.

Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.

³They conspire with cunning against your people.

They plot against your cherished ones.

⁴“Come,” they say, “and let’s destroy them as a nation,

That the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”

⁵For they have conspired together with one mind.

They form an alliance against you.

⁶The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites;

Moab, and the Hagrites;

⁷Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek;

Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;

⁸Assyria also is joined with them.

They have helped the children of Lot.

Selah.

⁹Do to them as you did to Midian,

As to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon;

¹⁰Who perished at Endor,

Who became as dung for the earth.

¹¹Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb;

Yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna;

¹²Who said, “Let us take possession

Of God’s pasturelands.”

¹³My God, make them like tumbleweed;

Like chaff before the wind.

¹⁴As the fire that burns the forest,

As the flame that sets the mountains on fire,

¹⁵So pursue them with your tempest,

And terrify them with your storm.

¹⁶Fill their faces with confusion,

That they may seek your name, Yahweh.

¹⁷Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever.

Yes, let them be confounded and perish;

¹⁸That they may know that you alone, whose name is Yahweh,

Are the Most High over all the earth.