Psalm 83–84

Psalm 83

A Song, a Psalm of Asaph.

¹O God, keep not thou silence:

Hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.

²For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult;

And they that hate thee have lifted up the head.

³They take crafty counsel against thy people,

And consult together against thy hidden ones.

⁴They have said,

Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation;

That the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.

⁵For they have consulted together with one consent;

Against thee do they make a covenant:

⁶The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites;

Moab, and the Hagarenes;

⁷Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek;

Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre:

⁸Assyria also is joined with them;

They have helped the children of Lot. Selah

⁹Do thou unto them as unto Midian,

As to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon;

¹⁰Who perished at Endor,

Who became as dung for the earth.

¹¹Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb;

Yea, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna;

¹²Who said, Let us take to ourselves in possession

The habitations of God.

¹³O my God, make them like the whirling dust;

As stubble before the wind.

¹⁴As the fire that burneth the forest,

And as the flame that setteth the mountains on fire,

¹⁵So pursue them with thy tempest,

And terrify them with thy storm.

¹⁶Fill their faces with confusion,

That they may seek thy name, O Jehovah.

¹⁷Let them be put to shame and dismayed for ever;

Yea, let them be confounded and perish;

¹⁸That they may know that thou alone, whose name is Jehovah,

Art the Most High over all the earth.

Psalm 84

For the Chief Musician; set to the Gittith. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.

¹How amiable are thy tabernacles,

O Jehovah of hosts!

²My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of Jehovah;

My heart and my flesh cry out unto the living God.

³Yea, the sparrow hath found her a house,

And the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young,

Even thine altars, O Jehovah of hosts,

My King, and my God.

⁴Blessed are they that dwell in thy house:

They will be still praising thee. Selah

⁵Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee;

In whose heart are the highways to Zion.

⁶Passing through the valley of Weeping they make it a place of springs;

Yea, the early rain covereth it with blessings.

⁷They go from strength to strength;

Every one of them appeareth before God in Zion.

⁸O Jehovah God of hosts, hear my prayer;

Give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah

⁹Behold, O God our shield,

And look upon the face of thine anointed.

¹⁰For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand.

I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God,

Than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

¹¹For Jehovah God is a sun and a shield:

Jehovah will give grace and glory;

No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

¹²O Jehovah of hosts,

Blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.