Psalms 83

NEW JERUSALEM	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 [Song Psalm Of Asaph] God, do not remain silent, do not stay quiet or unmoved, God!	1 A canticle of a psalm for Asaph.
2 See how your enemies are in uproar, how those who hate you are rearing their heads.	2 O God, who shall be like to thee? hold not thy peace, neither be thou still, O God.
3 They are laying plans against your people, conspiring against those you cherish;	3 For lo, thy enemies have made a noise: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
4 they say, 'Come, let us annihilate them as a nation, the name of Israel shall be remembered no more!'	4 They have taken a malicious counsel against thy people, and have consulted against thy saints.
5 They conspire with a single mind, they conclude an al iance against you,	5 They have said: Come and let us destroy them, so that they be not a nation: and let the name of Israel be remembered no more.
6 the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites,	6 For they have contrived with one consent: they have made a covenant together against thee,
7 Gebal, Ammon, Amalek, Philistia and the Tyrians;	7 the tabernacles of the Edomites, and the Ismahelites: Moab, and the Agarens,
8 even Assyria has joined them to reinforce the children of Lot.Pause	8 Gebal, and Ammon and Amalec: the Philistines, with the inhabitants of Tyre.
9 Treat them like Midian and Sisera, like Jabin at the river Kishon;	9 Yea, and the Assyrian also is joined with them: they are come to the aid of the sons of Lot.
10 wiped out at En-Dor, they served to manure the ground.	10 Do to them as thou didst to Madian and to Sisara: as to Jabin at the brook of Cisson.
11 Treat their leaders like Oreb and Zeeb, al their commanders like Zebah and Zalmunna,	11 Who perished at Endor: and became as dung for the earth.
12 for they said, 'Let us take for ourselves God's settlements.'	12 Make their princes like Oreb, and Zeb, and Zebee, and Salmana. All their princes,
13 My God, treat them like thistledown, like chaff at the mercy of the wind.	13 who have said: Let us possess the sanctuary of God for an inheritance.
14 As fire devours a forest, as a flame sets mountains ablaze,	14 O my God, make them like a wheel; and as stubble before the wind.
15 so drive them away with your tempest, by your whirlwind fill them with terror.	15 As fire which burneth the wood: and as a flame burning mountains:
16 Shame written al over their faces, let them seek your name, Yahweh!	16 So shalt thou pursue them with thy tempest: and shalt trouble them in thy wrath.
17 Dishonour and terror be always theirs, death also and destruction.	17 Fill their faces with shame; and they shall seek thy name, O Lord.
18 Let them know that you alone bear the name of Yahweh, Most High over al the earth.	18 Let them be ashamed and troubled for ever and ever: and let them be confounded and perish.
	19 And let them know that the Lord is thy name: thou alone art the most High over all the earth.