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Domenica, 28 aprile 2024 - San Luigi Maria Grignion da Montfort ( Letture di oggi)

Psalms 83


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NEW JERUSALEMKING JAMES BIBLE
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.Pause8 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.