Psalmen 83

1. ¹God, don't keep silent. Don't keep silent, And don't be still, God.
2. ²For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.
3. ³They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones.
4. ⁴"Come," they say, "and let's destroy them as a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more."
5. ⁵For they have conspired together with one mind. They form an alliance against you.
6. ⁶The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagrites;
7. ⁷Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
8. ⁸Assyria also is joined with them. They have helped the children of Lot. Selah.
9. ⁹Do to them as you did to Midian, As to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon;
10. ¹⁰Who perished at Endor, Who became as dung for the earth.
11. ¹¹Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb; Yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna;
12. ¹²Who said, "Let us take possession Of God's pasturelands."
13. ¹³My God, make them like tumbleweed; Like chaff before the wind.
14. ¹⁴As the fire that burns the forest, As the flame that sets the mountains on fire,
15. ¹⁵So pursue them with your tempest, And terrify them with your storm.
16. ¹⁶Fill their faces with confusion, That they may seek your name, Yahweh.
17. ¹⁷Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish;
18. ¹⁸That they may know that you alone, whose name is Yahweh, Are the Most High over all the earth.

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