Psalms 83

1 A Canticle Psalm of Asaph. O God, who will ever be like you? Do not be silent, and do not be unmoved, O God.

[A song. A Psalm by Asaph.] God, do not be silent. Do not be deaf, and do not be inactive, God.

2 For behold, your enemies have sounded off, and those who hate you have carried out a head.

For, look, your enemies make an uproar. Those who hate you are hostile.

3 They have acted with malice in counsel over your people, and they have plotted against your holy ones.

They devise crafty plans against your people, and conspire together against your treasured ones.

4 They have said, “Come, let us scatter them from the nations and not allow the name of Israel to be remembered any longer.”

They say, "Come, and let us annihilate them as a nation; let the name of Israel may be remembered no more."

5 For they plotted unanimously. Joined together against you, they ordained a covenant:

For they plot a unified strategy; they make a covenant against you;

6 the tabernacle of Edomites and Ishmaelites, and Moab and the Hagarites,

the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab, and the Hagrites,

7 and Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek, the foreigners among the inhabitants of Tyre.

Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre.

8 For even Assur comes with them. They have become the helpers of the sons of Lot.

Assyria too is joined with them; they lend support to the descendants of Lot. (Selah)

9 Do to them as you did to Midian and Sisera, just as to Jabin at the torrent of Kishon.

Do to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin at the Kishon River,

10 They perished at Endor, and they became like the dung of the earth.

who were destroyed at Endor, who became manure for the ground.

11 Set their leaders to be like Oreb and Zeeb, and Zebah and Zalmunna: all their leaders

Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,

12 who said, “Let us possess the Sanctuary of God for an inheritance.”

who said, "Let us take possession for ourselves the pastures of God."

13 My God, set them like a wheel, and like stubble before the face of the wind.

My God, make them like tumbleweed; like dead weeds blown by the wind.

14 Set them like a fire burning up the forest, and like a flame burning up the mountains.

Like a fire that consumes a forest, and like the flames that consume the mountains,

15 So will you pursue them in your tempest, and disturb them in your wrath.

so pursue them with your gale winds, and terrify them with your storm.

16 Fill their faces with shame, and they will seek your name, O Lord.

Cover their faces with shame, so that they might seek your name, YHWH.

17 Let them be ashamed and troubled, from age to age, and let them be confounded and perish.

Let them be put to shame and terrified forever; let them perish in disgrace,

18 And let them know that the Lord is your name. You alone are the Most High in all the earth.

that they will know that you alone, whose name is YHWH, are the Most High over all the earth.