Psalms 83
1 God, do not continue to be silent! Do not be quiet and say nothing,
A Song; a Psalm of Asaph. O God, keep not silence; hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God:
2 because your enemies are rioting against you; those who hate you are rebelling against you!
For behold, thine enemies make a tumult; and they that hate thee lift up the head.
3 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.
They take crafty counsel against thy people, and consult against thy hidden ones:
4 They say, “Come, we must destroy their nation, with the result that no one will remember that Israel ever existed!”
They say, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, and let the name of Israel be mentioned no more.
5 They have agreed on [what they want to do to destroy Israel], and they have formed an alliance against you.
For they have consulted together with one heart: they have made an alliance together against thee.
6 [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],
The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagarites;
7 Gebal [people-group], the Ammon [people-group], the Amalek [people-group], the Philistia [people-group], and the people of Tyre [city].
Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia, with the inhabitants of Tyre;
8 [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.
Asshur also is joined with them: they are an arm to the sons of Lot. (Selah)
9 [God], do to those people things like you did to the Midian [people-group], like [you did] to Sisera and Jabin at Kishon River.
Do unto them as to Midian; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the torrent of Kishon:
10 You destroyed them at Endor [town], and their corpses [lay on] the ground and decayed.
Who were destroyed at Endor; they became as dung for the ground.
11 Do to them things like you did to [Kings] Oreb and Zeeb; defeat their leaders like you defeated Zebah and Zalmunna,
Make their nobles as Oreb and as Zeeb; and all their chiefs as Zebah and as Zalmunna.
12 who said, “We will take for ourselves the land that [the Israelis say] belongs to God!”
For they have said, Let us take to ourselves God's dwelling-places in possession.
13 My God, cause them [to disappear quickly] like whirling dust, like chaff that the wind blows away!
O my God, make them like a whirling thing, like stubble before the wind.
14 Like a fire completely burns a forest and like flames burn in the mountains,
As fire burneth a forest, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire,
15 expel them by sending storms; cause them to be terrified by your big storms/hurricanes!
So pursue them with thy tempest, and terrify them with thy whirlwind.
16 Cause them [SYN] to be very ashamed in order that they will admit that you are very powerful.
Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek thy name, O Jehovah.
17 Cause them to be forever disgraced [because of being defeated], and cause them to die while they are still disgraced.
Let them be put to shame and be dismayed for ever, and let them be confounded and perish:
18 Cause them to know that you, whose name is Yahweh, are the supreme ruler over everything on the earth.
That they may know that thou alone, whose name is Jehovah, art the Most High over all the earth.
