Psalms 83

Psalm title: A Song; a Psalm of Asaph.

1. ¹O God, keep not silence; hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God:
2. ²For behold, thine enemies make a tumult; and they that hate thee lift up the head.
3. ³They take crafty counsel against thy people, and consult against thy hidden ones:
4. ⁴They say, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, and let the name of Israel be mentioned no more.
5. ⁵For they have consulted together with one heart: they have made an alliance together against thee.
6. ⁶The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagarites;
7. ⁷Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia, with the inhabitants of Tyre;
8. ⁸Asshur also is joined with them: they are an arm to the sons of Lot. Selah.
9. ⁹Do unto them as to Midian; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the torrent of Kishon:
10. ¹⁰Who were destroyed at Endor; they became as dung for the ground.
11. ¹¹Make their nobles as Oreb and as Zeeb; and all their chiefs as Zebah and as Zalmunna.
12. ¹²For they have said, Let us take to ourselves God's dwelling-places in possession.
13. ¹³O my God, make them like a whirling thing, like stubble before the wind.
14. ¹⁴As fire burneth a forest, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire,
15. ¹⁵So pursue them with thy tempest, and terrify them with thy whirlwind.
16. ¹⁶Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek thy name, O Jehovah.
17. ¹⁷Let them be put to shame and be dismayed for ever, and let them be confounded and perish:
18. ¹⁸That they may know that thou alone, whose name is Jehovah, art the Most High over all the earth.

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