Psalms 83 / 150
- 1O God, do not keep silent; be not quiet, O God, be not still.
- 2See how your enemies are astir, how your foes rear their heads.
- 3With cunning they conspire against your people; they plot against those you cherish.
- 4"Come," they say, "let us destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel be remembered no more."
- 5With one mind they plot together; they form an alliance against you-
- 6the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, of Moab and the Hagrites,
- 7Gebal, Ammon and Amalek, Philistia, with the people of Tyre.
- 8Even Assyria has joined them to lend strength to the descendants of Lot. Selah
- 9Do to them as you did to Midian, as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon,
- 10who perished at Endor and became like refuse on the ground.
- 11Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
- 12who said, "Let us take possession of the pasturelands of God."
- 13Make them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind.
- 14As fire consumes the forest or a flame sets the mountains ablaze,
- 15so pursue them with your tempest and terrify them with your storm.
- 16Cover their faces with shame so that men will seek your name, O LORD .
- 17May they ever be ashamed and dismayed; may they perish in disgrace.
- 18Let them know that you, whose name is the LORD - that you alone are the Most High over all the earth.