PSALM 83
1A song, an Asaph psalm.
2O God, no silence for You!
Do not be mute and do not be quiet, God.
3For, look, Your enemies rage,
and those who hate You lift their heads.
4Against Your people they devise cunning counsel
and conspire against Your protected ones.
5They have said: “Come, let us obliterate them as a nation,
and the name of Israel will no longer be recalled.”
6For they conspired with a single heart,
against You they sealed a pact—
7the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,
Moab and the Hagrites,
8Gebal and Ammon and Amalek,
Philistia with the dwellers of Tyre.
9Assyria, too, has joined them,
has become an arm for the sons of Lot.
selah
10Do unto them as to Midian, as to Sisera,
as to Jabin at the Kishon Wadi.
11They were destroyed at En-Dor,
they turned into dung for the soil.
12Deal with their nobles as with Oreb
and as with Zeeb and Zebah and Zalmunna, all their princes,
13who said, “We shall take hold for ourselves
of all the meadows of God.”
14O God, make them like the thistledown,
like straw before the wind.
15As fire burns down forests
and as flame ignites the mountains,
16so shall You pursue them with Your storm
and with Your tempest dismay them.
17Fill their faces with infamy
that they may seek Your name, O LORD.
18May they be shamed and dismayed forever,
may they be disgraced and may they perish.
19And may they know that You, Your name is the LORD.