Psalms 83

1 Keep not you silence, O God: hold not your peace, and be not still, 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, lo, your enemies make a tumult: and they that hate you have lifted up the head.

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

3 They have taken crafty counsel against your people, and consulted against your hidden ones.

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

4 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.

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

5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against you:

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

6 The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;

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

7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;

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

8 Assur also is joined with them: they have helped the children of Lot. (Selah)

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

9 Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:

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

10 Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth.

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

11 Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:

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

12 Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.

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

13 O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.

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

14 As the fire burns a wood, and as the flame sets the mountains on fire;

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

15 So persecute them with your tempest, and make them afraid with your storm.

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

16 Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek your name, O LORD.

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

17 Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:

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

18 That men may know that you, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, are the most high over all the earth.

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