Psalm 83

¹ A Song, — A Psalm of Asaph. O God, let there be no silence to Thee, Be not silent, nor be quiet, O God.

² For, lo, Thine enemies do roar, And those hating Thee have lifted up the head,

³ Against Thy people they take crafty counsel, And consult against Thy hidden ones.

⁴ They have said, ‘Come, And we cut them off from [being] a nation, And the name of Israel is not remembered any more.’

⁵ For they consulted in heart together, Against Thee a covenant they make,

⁶ Tents of Edom, and Ishmaelites, Moab, and the Hagarenes,

⁷ Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia with inhabitants of Tyre,

⁸ Asshur also is joined with them, They have been an arm to sons of Lot. Selah.

⁹ Do to them as [to] Midian, As [to] Sisera, as [to] Jabin, at the stream Kishon.

¹⁰ They were destroyed at Endor, They were dung for the ground!

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

¹² Who have said, ‘Let us occupy for ourselves The comely places of God.’

¹³ O my God, make them as a rolling thing, As stubble before wind.

¹⁴ As a fire doth burn a forest, And as a flame setteth hills on fire,

¹⁵ So dost Thou pursue them with Thy whirlwind, And with Thy hurricane troublest them.

¹⁶ Fill their faces [with] shame, And they seek Thy name, O Jehovah.

¹⁷ They are ashamed and troubled for ever, Yea, they are confounded and lost.

¹⁸ And they know that Thou — (Thy name [is] Jehovah — by Thyself,) [Art] the Most High over all the earth!