Psalms83

¹ O God, do not remain silent; do not turn a deaf ear, do not stand aloof, O God.

² See how your enemies growl, how your foes rear their heads.

³ With cunning they conspire against your people; they plot against those you cherish.

⁴ “Come,” they say, “let us destroy them as a nation, so that Israel’s name is remembered no more.”

⁵ With one mind they plot together; they form an alliance against you—

⁶ the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, of Moab and the Hagrites,

⁷ Byblos, Ammon and Amalek, Philistia, with the people of Tyre.

⁸ Even Assyria has joined them to reinforce Lot’s descendants.

⁹ Do to them as you did to Midian, as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon,

¹⁰ who perished at Endor and became like dung on the ground.

¹¹ Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,

¹² who said, “Let us take possession of the pasturelands of God.”

¹³ Make them like tumbleweed, my God, like chaff before the wind.

¹⁴ As fire consumes the forest or a flame sets the mountains ablaze,

¹⁵ so pursue them with your tempest and terrify them with your storm.

¹⁶ Cover their faces with shame, Lord, so that they will seek your name.

¹⁷ May they ever be ashamed and dismayed; may they perish in disgrace.

¹⁸ Let them know that you, whose name is the Lord— that you alone are the Most High over all the earth.