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