| 83:1 |
O God, do not keep silent; be not quiet, O God, be not still. |
| 83:2 |
See how your enemies are astir, how your foes rear their heads. |
| 83:3 |
With cunning they conspire against your people; they plot against those you cherish. |
| 83:4 |
"Come," they say, "let us destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel be remembered no more." |
| 83:5 |
With one mind they plot together; they form an alliance against you-- |
| 83:6 |
the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, of Moab and the Hagrites, |
| 83:7 |
Gebal, Ammon and Amalek, Philistia, with the people of Tyre. |
| 83:8 |
Even Assyria has joined them to lend strength to the descendants of Lot. Selah |
| 83:9 |
Do to them as you did to Midian, as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon, |
| 83:10 |
who perished at Endor and became like refuse on the ground. |
| 83:11 |
Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna, |
| 83:12 |
who said, "Let us take possession of the pasturelands of God." |
| 83:13 |
Make them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind. |
| 83:14 |
As fire consumes the forest or a flame sets the mountains ablaze, |
| 83:15 |
so pursue them with your tempest and terrify them with your storm. |
| 83:16 |
Cover their faces with shame so that men will seek your name, O LORD. |
| 83:17 |
May they ever be ashamed and dismayed; may they perish in disgrace. |
| 83:18 |
Let them know that you, whose name is the LORD--that you alone are the Most High over all the earth. |
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