Psalms 83

1 A Song of a Psalm for Asaph. O God, who shall be compared to you? be not silent, neither be 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 behold, your enemies have made a noise; and they that hate you have lifted up the head.

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

3 Against your people they have craftily imagined a device, and have taken counsel against your saints.

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

4 They have said, Come, and let us utterly destroy them out of the nation; and let the name of Israel be remembered no more at all.

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 taken counsel together with one consent: they have made a confederacy against you;

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

6 even the tents of the Idumeans, and the Ismaelites; Moab, and the Agarenes;

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

7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalec; the Philistines also, with them that dwell at Tyre.

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

8 Yes, Assur too is come with them: they have become a help to the children of Lot. (Pause)

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

9 Do you to them as to Madiam, and 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 They were utterly destroyed at Aendor: they became as dung for the earth.

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

11 Make their princes as Oreb and Zeb, and Zebee and Salmana; [even] all their princes:

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

12 who said, let us take to ourselves the altar of God as an inheritance.

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

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

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

14 As fire which shall burn up a wood, as the flame may consume the mountains;

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

15 so shall you persecute them with your tempest, and trouble them in your anger.

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

16 Fill their faces with dishonor; so shall they 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 for evermore; yes, let them be confounded and destroyed.

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

18 And let them know that your name is Lord; that you alone are Most High over all the earth.

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