Psalms83

¹ O God, do not be silent! Do not be deaf. Do not be quiet, O God.

² Don’t you hear the uproar of your enemies? Don’t you see that your arrogant enemies are rising up?

³ They devise crafty schemes against your people; they conspire against your precious ones.

⁴ “Come,” they say, “let us wipe out Israel as a nation. We will destroy the very memory of its existence.”

⁵ Yes, this was their unanimous decision. They signed a treaty as allies against you—

⁶ these Edomites and Ishmaelites; Moabites and Hagrites;

⁷ Gebalites, Ammonites, and Amalekites; and people from Philistia and Tyre.

⁸ Assyria has joined them, too, and is allied with the descendants of Lot. Interlude

⁹ Do to them as you did to the Midianites and as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River.

¹⁰ They were destroyed at Endor, and their decaying corpses fertilized the soil.

¹¹ Let their mighty nobles die as Oreb and Zeeb did. Let all their princes die like Zebah and Zalmunna,

¹² for they said, “Let us seize for our own use these pasturelands of God!”

¹³ O my God, scatter them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind!

¹⁴ As a fire burns a forest and as a flame sets mountains ablaze,

¹⁵ chase them with your fierce storm; terrify them with your tempest.

¹⁶ Utterly disgrace them until they submit to your name, O Lord.

¹⁷ Let them be ashamed and terrified forever. Let them die in disgrace.

¹⁸ Then they will learn that you alone are called the Lord, that you alone are the Most High, supreme over all the earth.