Psalms 83

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

18 Then they will know that you alone, Yahweh, are the 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.