Psalm 83
A song. A Psalm by Asaph.
1 God, don’t keep silent.
Don’t keep silent,
and don’t be still, God.
2 For, behold,
your enemies are stirred up.
Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.
3 They conspire
with cunning against
your people.
They plot against
your cherished ones.
4 “Come,”
they say, “let’s destroy them
as a nation,
that the name of
Israel may
be remembered no more.”
5 For
they have conspired together
with one mind.
They form an alliance
against you.
6 The tents
of Edom and
the Ishmaelites;
Moab, and the Hagrites;
7 Gebal, Ammon,
and Amalek;
Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
8 Assyria also
is joined with
them.
They have helped
the children of Lot.
Selah.
9 Do to
them as you
did to Midian,
as to Sisera, as
to Jabin, at
the river Kishon;
10 who perished
at Endor,
who became as dung
for the earth.
11 Make
their nobles like Oreb
and Zeeb,
yes, all their princes like Zebah
and Zalmunna,
12 who said,
“Let’s take possession of God’s
pasture lands.”
13 My God, make
them like tumbleweed,
like chaff before the wind.
14 As
the fire that burns
the forest,
as the flame that
sets the mountains
on fire,
15 so pursue
them with your tempest,
and terrify them
with your storm.
16 Fill
their faces with confusion,
that they may seek
your name, LORD.
17 Let them
be disappointed and dismayed
forever.
Yes, let them be confounded
and perish;
18 that
they may know that
you alone, whose name is the
LORD,
are the Most High over
all the earth.