Psalm 83:1-18
A song. A melody of Aʹsaph.+
83 O God, let there be no silence on your part;+Do not keep speechless, and do not stay quiet, O Divine One.*+
2 For, look! your very enemies are in an uproar;+And the very ones intensely hating you have raised [their] head.+
3 Against your people they cunningly carry on their confidential talk;+And they conspire against your concealed ones.+
4 They have said: “Come and let us efface them from being a nation,+That the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”+
5 For with the heart they have unitedly exchanged counsel;+Against you they proceeded to conclude even a covenant,*+
6 The tents of Eʹdom+ and the Ishʹma·el·ites, Moʹab+ and the Hagʹrites,+
7 Geʹbal and Amʹmon+ and Amʹa·lek,Phi·lisʹti·a+ together with the inhabitants of Tyre.+
8 Also, As·syrʹi·a* itself has become joined with them;+They have become an arm to the sons of Lot.*+ Seʹlah.
9 Do to them as to Midʹi·an,+ as to Sisʹe·ra,+As to Jaʹbin+ at the torrent valley of Kiʹshon.+
10 They were annihilated at En-dor;+They became manure for the ground.+
11 As for their nobles, make these like Oʹreb and like Zeʹeb,+And like Zeʹbah and like Zal·munʹna all their dukes,+
12 Who have said: “Let us take possession of the abiding places of God for ourselves.”+
13 O my God, make them like a thistle whirl,+Like stubble before a wind.*+
14 Like a fire that burns up the forest+And like a flame that scorches the mountains,+
15 In just that way may you pursue them with your tempest+And may you disturb them with your own storm wind.+
16 Fill their faces with dishonor,+That people* may search for your name, O Jehovah.+
17 O may they be ashamed and be disturbed for all times,+And may they become abashed and perish;+
18 That people may know+ that you, whose name is Jehovah,+You alone are the Most High+ over all the earth.+
Footnotes
^ Or, “O God.” Heb., ʼEl.
^ “Covenant.” Heb., berithʹ; Gr., di·a·theʹken; Vg(Lat.), te·sta·menʹtum. See App 7E.
^ Or, “Asshur,” M; LXXVg, “Assur.”
^ “Sons of Lot,” referring to the Moabites and the Ammonites in vss 6, 7.
^ Or, “they.”
