Psalm 83

Psalm 83

PRAYER AGAINST ENEMIES

A song. A psalm of Asaph.^s

¹God, do not keep silent.

Do not be deaf, God; do not be quiet.^t

²See how your enemies make an uproar;

those who hate you have acted arrogantly.^Bu

³They devise clever schemes against your people;

they conspire against your treasured ones.^v

⁴They say, “Come, lets wipe them out as a nation

so that Israel’s name will no longer be remembered.”^w

⁵For they have conspired with one mind;

they form an alliance^C against you^x—

⁶the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,^y

Moab and the Hagrites,^z

⁷Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek,^aa

Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre.^ab

⁸Even Assyria has joined them;

they lend support^D to the sons of Lot.^Eac

Selah

⁹Deal with them as you did with Midian,^ad

as you did with Sisera

and Jabin at the Kishon River.^ae

¹⁰They were destroyed at En-dor;

they became manure for the ground.^af

¹¹Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb,^ag

and all their tribal leaders like Zebah and Zalmunna,^ah

¹²who said, “Lets seize God’s pastures for ourselves.”^ai

¹³Make them like tumbleweed, my God,

like straw before the wind.^aj

¹⁴As fire burns a forest,

as a flame blazes through mountains,^ak

¹⁵so pursue them with your tempest

and terrify them with your storm.^al

¹⁶Cover their faces with shame

so that they will seek your name, Lord.^am

¹⁷Let them be put to shame and terrified forever;

let them perish in disgrace.^an

¹⁸May they know that you alone—

whose name is the Lord—

are the Most High over the whole earth.^a