Psalms 83:1 ←
A Song. A Psalm. Of Asaph. O God, do not keep quiet: let your lips be open and take no rest, O God.
Psalms 83:2 ←
For see! those who make war on you are out of control; your haters are lifting up their heads.
Psalms 83:3 ←
They have made wise designs against your people, talking together against those whom you keep in a secret place.
Psalms 83:4 ←
They have said, Come, let us put an end to them as a nation; so that the name of Israel may go out of man's memory.
Psalms 83:5 ←
For they have all come to an agreement; they are all joined together against you:
Psalms 83:6 ←
The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab and the Hagarites;
Psalms 83:7 ←
Gebal and Ammon and Amalek; the Philistines and the people of Tyre;
Psalms 83:8 ←
Assur is joined with them; they have become the support of the children of Lot. (Selah.)
Psalms 83:9 ←
Do to them what you did to the Midianites; what you did to Sisera and Jabin, at the stream of Kishon:
Psalms 83:10 ←
Who came to destruction at En-dor; their bodies became dust and waste.
Psalms 83:11 ←
Make their chiefs like Oreb and Zeeb; and all their rulers like Zebah and Zalmunna:
Psalms 83:12 ←
Who have said, Let us take for our heritage the resting-place of God.
Psalms 83:13 ←
O my God, make them like the rolling dust; like dry stems before the wind.
Psalms 83:14 ←
As fire burning a wood, and as a flame causing fire on the mountains,
Psalms 83:15 ←
So go after them with your strong wind, and let them be full of fear because of your storm.
Psalms 83:16 ←
Let their faces be full of shame; so that they may give honour to your name, O Lord.
Psalms 83:17 ←
Let them be overcome and troubled for ever; let them be put to shame and come to destruction;
Psalms 83:18 ←
So that men may see that you only, whose name is Yahweh, are Most High over all the earth.
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