Psalms - Chapter 83 | Good News Translation

  • 1. O God, do not keep silent; do not be still, do not be quiet!
  • 2. Look! Your enemies are in revolt, and those who hate you are rebelling.
  • 3. They are making secret plans against your people; they are plotting against those you protect.
  • 4. "Come," they say, "let us destroy their nation, so that Israel will be forgotten forever."
  • 5. They agree on their plan and form an alliance against you:
  • 6. the people of Edom and the Ishmaelites; the people of Moab and the Hagrites;
  • 7. the people of Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, and of Philistia and Tyre.
  • 8. Assyria has also joined them as a strong ally of the Ammonites and Moabites, the descendants of Lot.
  • 9. Do to them what you did to the Midianites, and to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River.
  • 10. You defeated them at Endor, and their bodies rotted on the ground.
  • 11. Do to their leaders what you did to Oreb and Zeeb; defeat all their rulers as you did Zebah and Zalmunna,
  • 12. who said, "We will take for our own the land that belongs to God."
  • 13. Scatter them like dust, O God, like straw blown away by the wind.
  • 14. As fire burns the forest, as flames set the hills on fire,
  • 15. chase them away with your storm and terrify them with your fierce winds.
  • 16. Cover their faces with shame, O LORD, and make them acknowledge your power.
  • 17. May they be defeated and terrified forever; may they die in complete disgrace.
  • 18. May they know that you alone are the LORD, supreme ruler over all the earth.
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