< Psalms 83 >

1 A Song, a Psalm of Asaph. O God, keep not thou silence: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God. 2 For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head. 3 They take crafty counsel against thy people, and consult together against thy hidden ones. 4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. 5 For they have consulted together with one consent; against thee do they make a covenant: 6 The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagarenes; 7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre: 8 Assyria also is joined with them; they have holpen the children of Lot. (Selah) 9 Do thou unto them as unto Midian; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon: 10 Which perished at En-dor; they became as dung for the earth. 11 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb; yea, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna: 12 Who said, Let us take to ourselves in possession the habitations of God. 13 O my God, make them like the whirling dust; as stubble before the wind. 14 As the fire that burneth the forest, and as the flame that setteth the mountains on fire; 15 So pursue them with thy tempest, and terrify them with thy storm. 16 Fill their faces with confusion; that they may seek thy name, O LORD. 17 Let them be ashamed and dismayed for ever; yea, let them be confounded and perish: 18 That they may know that thou alone, whose name is JEHOVAH, art the Most High over all the earth.

< Psalms 83 >