Psalmorum 83

1 Canticum Psalmi Asaph. Deus, quis similis erit tibi? ne taceas, neque compescaris Deus:

A song. A Psalm by Asaph. God, don’t keep silent. Don’t keep silent, and don’t be still, God.

2 Quoniam ecce inimici tui sonuerunt: et qui oderunt te, extulerunt caput.

For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.

3 Super populum tuum malignaverunt consilium: et cogitaverunt adversus sanctos tuos.

They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones.

4 Dixerunt: Venite, et disperdamus eos de gente: et non memoretur nomen Israel ultra.

“Come,” they say, “let’s destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”

5 Quoniam cogitaverunt unanimiter: simul adversum te testamentum disposuerunt,

For they have conspired together with one mind. They form an alliance against you.

6 tabernacula Idumæorum et Ismahelitæ: Moab, et Agareni,

The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagrites;

7 Gebal, et Ammon, et Amalec: alienigenæ cum habitantibus Tyrum.

Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;

8 Etenim Assur venit cum illis: facti sunt in adiutorium filiis Lot.

Assyria also is joined with them. They have helped the children of Lot. (Selah)

9 Fac illis sicut Madian et Sisaræ: sicut Iabin in torrente Cisson.

Do to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon;

10 Disperierunt in Endor: facti sunt ut stercus terræ.

who perished at Endor, who became as dung for the earth.

11 Pone principes eorum sicut Oreb, et Zeb, et Zebee, et Salmana: Omnes principes eorum:

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

12 qui dixerunt: Hereditate possideamus Sanctuarium Dei.

who said, “Let’s take possession of God’s pasture lands.”

13 Deus meus pone illos ut rotam: et sicut stipulam ante faciem venti.

My God, make them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind.

14 Sicut ignis, qui comburit silvam: et sicut flamma comburens montes:

As the fire that burns the forest, as the flame that sets the mountains on fire,

15 Ita persequeris illos in tempestate tua: et in ira tua turbabis eos.

so pursue them with your tempest, and terrify them with your storm.

16 Imple facies eorum ignominia: et quærent nomen tuum, Domine.

Fill their faces with confusion, that they may seek your name, Yahweh.

17 Erubescant, et conturbentur in sæculum sæculi: et confundantur, et pereant.

Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish;

18 Et cognoscant quia nomen tibi Dominus: tu solus Altissimus in omni terra.

that they may know that you alone, whose name is Yahweh, are the Most High over all the earth.