Psalms 83

1 A song. A psalm of Asaph. God, do not be silent! Do not ignore us and remain unmoved, God.

A Song of a Psalm for Asaph. O God, who shall be compared to you? be not silent, neither be still, O God.

2 Look, your enemies are making a commotion, and those who hate you have raised their heads.

For behold, your enemies have made a noise; and they that hate you have lifted up the head.

3 They conspire against your people and plan together against your protected ones.

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

4 They have said, “Come, and let us destroy them as a nation. Then the name of Israel will no longer be remembered.”

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.

5 They have schemed together with one strategy; against you they have made an alliance.

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

6 This includes the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, and the people of Moab and the Hagrites, who plot together with

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

7 Gebal, Ammon, Amalek; it also includes Philistia and the inhabitants of Tyre.

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

8 Assyria also is allied with them; they are helping the descendants of Lot. (Selah)

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

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

Do you to them as to Madiam, and to Sisera; as to Jabin at the brook of Kison.

10 They perished at Endor and became like manure for the earth.

They were utterly destroyed at Aendor: they became as dung for the earth.

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

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

12 They said, “Let us take for ourselves the pastures of God.”

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

13 My God, make them like the whirling dust, like chaff before the wind,

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

14 like the fire that burns the forest, and like the flame that sets the mountains on fire.

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

15 Chase them with your strong wind, and terrify them with your windstorm.

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

16 Fill their faces with shame so that they might seek your name, Yahweh.

Fill their faces with dishonour; so shall they seek your name, O Lord.

17 May they be put to shame and be terrified forever; may they perish in disgrace.

Let them be ashamed and troubled for evermore; yes, let them be confounded and destroyed.

18 Then they will know that you alone, Yahweh, are the Most High over all the earth.

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