Psalms - Chapter 83 | English Standard Version

  • 1. A Song. A Psalm of Asaph. O God, do not keep silence; do not hold your peace or be still, O God!
  • 2. For behold, your enemies make an uproar; those who hate you have raised their heads.
  • 3. They lay crafty plans against your people; they consult together against your treasured ones.
  • 4. They say, "Come, let us wipe them out as a nation; let the name of Israel be remembered no more!"
  • 5. For they conspire with one accord; against you they make a covenant--
  • 6. the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites,
  • 7. Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
  • 8. Asshur also has joined them; they are the strong arm of the children of Lot. Selah.
  • 9. Do to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon,
  • 10. who were destroyed at En-dor, who became dung for the ground.
  • 11. Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
  • 12. who said, "Let us take possession for ourselves of the pastures of God."
  • 13. O my God, make them like whirling dust, like chaff before the wind.
  • 14. As fire consumes the forest, as the flame sets the mountains ablaze,
  • 15. so may you pursue them with your tempest and terrify them with your hurricane!
  • 16. Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek your name, O LORD.
  • 17. Let them be put to shame and dismayed forever; let them perish in disgrace,
  • 18. that they may know that you alone, whose name is the LORD, are the Most High over all the earth.
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