Psalms 83

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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.