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, don’t keep silent. Don’t keep silent, and don’t be still, God.

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

For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.

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

They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished 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.”

“Come,” they say, “let’s destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”

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

For they have conspired together with one mind. They form an alliance 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 also is joined with them. They have helped the children 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 river Kishon;

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

who perished at Endor, who became as dung for the earth.

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

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

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

who said, “Let’s take possession of God’s pasture lands.”

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

My God, make them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind.

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

As the fire that burns the forest, as the flame that sets the mountains on fire,

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

so pursue them with your tempest, and terrify them with your storm.

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

Fill their faces with confusion, that they may seek your name, LORD.

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

Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish;

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

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