Psalms 83

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

“A song or psalm of Assaph.” O God, take no rest for thyself: be not silent and keep not still, O God!

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

For, lo, thy enemies make a tumult, and they that hate thee have lifted up their 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.

Against thy people they take crafty secret device, and they consult against those whom thou protectest.

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

They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; and the name of Israel shall be remembered 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 cordially together; against thee they make a covenant:

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 Hagarenes;

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; the Philistines 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.

Also Asshur is joined with them; they have become an arm unto the children 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 [unto] Midian; as to Sissera, as to Jabin, at the brook Kishon:

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

Who were annihilated at 'En-dor; 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,

Render them, their nobles, like 'Oreb, and like Zeeb; yea, like Zebach and like Zalmunna' all their princes;

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

Who said, Let us conquer for ourselves the dwellings of God,

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

O my God, render them like the thistle-down, like stubble before the wind.

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

As the fire burneth up 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 storm, and with thy whirlwind do thou terrify them.

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 Lord!

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

Let them be made ashamed and terrified for ever and aye; yea, let them be put to the blush 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, whose name is the Eternal, art by thyself alone, the Most High over all the earth.