Psalms 83

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

A song. A psalm of Asaph. God, do not be silent! Do not ignore us and remain unmoved, God.

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

Look, your enemies are making a commotion, and those who hate you have raised their heads.

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 conspire against your people and plan together against your protected ones.

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 destroy them as a nation. Then the name of Israel will no longer be remembered.”

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

They have schemed together with one strategy; against you they have made an alliance.

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],

This includes the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, and the people of Moab and the Hagrites, who plot together with

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

Gebal, Ammon, Amalek; it also includes Philistia and 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.

Assyria also is allied with them; they are helping the descendants 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 to them as you did to Midian, as you did to Sisera and to Jabin at the Kishon River.

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

They perished at Endor and became like manure for the earth.

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 like Oreb and Zeeb, and all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna.

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

They said, “Let us take for ourselves the pastures of God.”

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

My God, make them like the whirling dust, like chaff before the wind,

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

like the fire that burns the forest, and like the flame that sets the mountains on fire.

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

Chase them with your strong wind, and terrify them with your windstorm.

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

Fill their faces with shame so that they might seek your name, Yahweh.

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

May they be put to shame and be terrified forever; may they perish in disgrace.

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

Then they will know that you alone, Yahweh, are the Most High over all the earth.