Psalm 83:1-18
A song. A melody of Aʹsaph.+
83 O God, do not be silent;+Do not keep quiet* or still, O Divine One.
2 For look! your enemies are in an uproar;+Those who hate you act arrogantly.*
3 With cunning they secretly plot against your people;They conspire against your treasured ones.*
4 They say: “Come, let us annihilate them as a nation,+So that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”
5 They devise a unified strategy;*They have made an alliance* against you+—
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 As·syrʹi·a+ too has joined them;They give support to* the sons of Lot.+ (Selah)
9 Do to them as you did to Midʹi·an,+As you did to Sisʹe·ra and Jaʹbin at the stream* of Kiʹshon.+
10 They were annihilated at En-dor;+They became manure for the ground.
11 Make their nobles like Oʹreb and Zeʹeb+And their princes* like Zeʹbah and Zal·munʹna,+
12 For they said: “Let us take possession of the land where God dwells.”
13 O my God, make them like a whirling thistle,*+Like stubble blown about by the wind.
14 Like a fire that burns up the forest,Like a flame that scorches the mountains,+
15 So may you pursue them with your tempest+And terrify them with your windstorm.+
16 Cover* their faces with dishonor,So that they may search for your name, O Jehovah.
17 May they be put to shame and be terrified forever;May they be disgraced and perish;
18 May people know that you, whose name is Jehovah,+You alone are the Most High over all the earth.+
Footnotes
^ Or “keep speechless.”
^ Or “raise their heads.”
^ Lit., “concealed ones.”
^ Or “a covenant.”
^ Lit., “They consult with a heart together.”
^ Lit., “have become an arm to.”
^ Or “wadi.”
^ Or “leaders.”
^ Or “like tumbleweed.”
^ Lit., “Fill.”
