Psalms 83

¹O God, do not keep silent; be not quiet, O God, be not still.

²See how your enemies are astir, how your foes rear their heads.

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

⁴"Come," they say, "let us destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel be remembered no more."

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

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

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

⁸Even Assyria has joined them to lend strength to the descendants of Lot. Selah

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

¹⁶Cover their faces with shame so that men will seek your name, O LORD.

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

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