Psalms 83

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¹ [Song Psalm Of Asaph] God, do not remain silent, do not stay quiet or unmoved, God!	¹ Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
² See how your enemies are in uproar, how those who hate you are rearing their heads.	² For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
³ They are laying plans against your people, conspiring against those you cherish;	³ They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.
⁴ they say, 'Come, let us annihilate them as a nation, the name of Israel shall be remembered no more!'	⁴ They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
⁵ They conspire with a single mind, they conclude an al iance against you,	⁵ For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:
⁶ the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites,	⁶ The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
⁷ Gebal, Ammon, Amalek, Philistia and the Tyrians;	⁷ Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;
⁸ even Assyria has joined them to reinforce the children of Lot.Pause	⁸ Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.
⁹ Treat them like Midian and Sisera, like Jabin at the river Kishon;	⁹ Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:
¹⁰ wiped out at En-Dor, they served to manure the ground.	¹⁰ Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth.
¹¹ Treat their leaders like Oreb and Zeeb, al their commanders like Zebah and Zalmunna,	¹¹ Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:
¹² for they said, 'Let us take for ourselves God's settlements.'	¹² Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.
¹³ My God, treat them like thistledown, like chaff at the mercy of the wind.	¹³ O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
¹⁴ As fire devours a forest, as a flame sets mountains ablaze,	¹⁴ As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;
¹⁵ so drive them away with your tempest, by your whirlwind fill them with terror.	¹⁵ So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.
¹⁶ Shame written al over their faces, let them seek your name, Yahweh!	¹⁶ Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.
¹⁷ Dishonour and terror be always theirs, death also and destruction.	¹⁷ Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:
¹⁸ Let them know that you alone bear the name of Yahweh, Most High over al the earth.	¹⁸ That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.