Psalms 83

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

God, do not continue to be silent! Do not be quiet and say nothing,

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

because your enemies are rioting against you; those who hate you are rebelling against you!

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

They are secretly planning to do things to harm [us], your people; they are (conspiring together against/planning how to defeat) the people whom you protect.

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

They say, “Come, we must destroy their nation, with the result that no one will remember that Israel ever existed!”

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

They have agreed on [what they want to do to destroy Israel], and they have formed an alliance against you.

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

[The people who have done that are] the people of Edom [region], the descendants of Ishmael [who live on the east side of the Jordan River], the Moab [people-group], the descendants of Hagar [who also live on the east side of the Jordan River],

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

Gebal [people-group], the Ammon [people-group], the Amalek [people-group], the Philistia [people-group], and the people of Tyre [city].

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

[The people of] have joined them; they are strong allies of the [Moab and Ammon people-groups, who are] descendants of [Abraham’s nephew] Lot.

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

[God], do to those people things like you did to the Midian [people-group], like [you did] to Sisera and Jabin at Kishon River.

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

You destroyed them at Endor [town], and their corpses [lay on] the ground and decayed.

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

Do to them things like you did to [Kings] Oreb and Zeeb; defeat their leaders like you defeated Zebah and Zalmunna,

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

who said, “We will take for ourselves the land that [the Israelis say] belongs to God!”

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

My God, cause them [to disappear quickly] like whirling dust, like chaff that the wind blows away!

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

Like a fire completely burns a forest and like flames burn in the mountains,

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

expel them by sending storms; cause them to be terrified by your big storms/hurricanes!

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

Cause them [SYN] to be very ashamed in order that they will admit that you are very powerful.

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

Cause them to be forever disgraced [because of being defeated], and cause them to die while they are still disgraced.

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

Cause them to know that you, whose name is Yahweh, are the supreme ruler over everything on the earth.