| 83.1 |
God, don’t keep silent. Don’t keep silent, and don’t be still, God. |
| 83.2 |
For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you have lifted up their heads. |
| 83.3 |
They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones. |
| 83.4 |
“Come,” they say, “let’s destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.” |
| 83.5 |
For they have conspired together with one mind. They form an alliance against you. |
| 83.6 |
The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagrites; |
| 83.7 |
Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre; |
| 83.8 |
Assyria also is joined with them. They have helped the children of Lot. Selah. |
| 83.9 |
Do to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon; |
| 83.10 |
who perished at Endor, who became as dung for the earth. |
| 83.11 |
Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb; yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna; |
| 83.12 |
who said, “Let us take possession of God’s pasture lands.” |
| 83.13 |
My God, make them like tumbleweed; like chaff before the wind. |
| 83.14 |
As the fire that burns the forest, as the flame that sets the mountains on fire, |
| 83.15 |
so pursue them with your tempest, and terrify them with your storm. |
| 83.16 |
Fill their faces with confusion, that they may seek your name, Yahweh. |
| 83.17 |
Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish; |
| 83.18 |
that they may know that you alone, whose name is Yahweh, are the Most High over all the earth. |
