< 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. 2 For behold, your enemies have made a noise; and they that hate you have lifted up the head. 3 Against your people they have craftily imagined a device, and have taken counsel against your saints. 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. 5 For they have taken counsel together with one consent: they have made a confederacy against you; 6 even the tents of the Idumeans, and the Ismaelites; Moab, and the Agarenes; 7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalec; the Philistines also, with them that dwell at Tyre. 8 Yes, Assur too is come with them: they have become a help to the children of Lot. (Pause) 9 Do you to them as to Madiam, and to Sisera; as to Jabin at the brook of Kison. 10 They were utterly destroyed at Aendor: they became as dung for the earth. 11 Make their princes as Oreb and Zeb, and Zebee and Salmana; [even] all their princes: 12 who said, let us take to ourselves the altar of God as an inheritance. 13 O my God, make them as a wheel; as stubble before the face of the wind. 14 As fire which shall burn up a wood, as the flame may consume the mountains; 15 so shall you persecute them with your tempest, and trouble them in your anger. 16 Fill their faces with dishonor; so shall they seek your name, O Lord. 17 Let them be ashamed and troubled for evermore; yes, let them be confounded and destroyed. 18 And let them know that your name is Lord; that you alone are Most High over all the earth.

< Psalms 83 >