Psalm 83–84

PSALM 83

O God, Do Not Be Quiet

A Song. A Psalm of Asaph.

¹O God, ^ado not remain at rest;

^bDo not be silent and, O God, do not be quiet.

²For behold, Your enemies ^aroar,

And ^bthose who hate You have ^clifted up their heads.

³They ^amake shrewd plans against Your people,

And ¹conspire together against ^bYour ²treasured ones.

⁴They have said, “Come, and ^alet us wipe them out ¹as a nation,

That the ^bname of Israel be remembered no more.”

⁵For they have ^1aconspired together with one heart;

Against You they cut a covenant:

⁶The tents of ^aEdom and the ^bIshmaelites,

^cMoab and the ^dHagrites;

^7aGebal and ^bAmmon and ^cAmalek,

^dPhilistia with the inhabitants of ^eTyre;

^8aAssyria also has joined with them;

They have become ¹the power of the ^bchildren of Lot. ²Selah.

⁹Do to them ^aas to Midian,

As ^bto Sisera, and Jabin at the river of Kishon,

¹⁰Who were destroyed at En-dor,

Who ^awere as dung for the ground.

¹¹Make their nobles like ^aOreb and Zeeb

And all their princes like ^bZebah and Zalmunna,

¹²Who said, “^aLet us possess for ourselves

The ^bpastures of God.”

¹³O my God, make them like the ^1awhirling dust,

Like ^bchaff before the wind.

¹⁴Like ^afire that burns the forest

And like a flame that ^bburns up the mountains,

¹⁵So pursue them ^awith Your tempest

And dismay them with Your storm.

^16aFill their faces with disgrace,

That they may seek Your name, O Yahweh.

¹⁷Let them be ^aashamed and dismayed forever,

And let them be humiliated and perish,

¹⁸That they may ^aknow that ^bYou alone—Your name is Yahweh—

Are the ^cMost High over all the earth.

PSALM 84

Blessed Is the Man Who Trusts in You

For the choir director. According to the ^†Gittith. Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm.

¹How lovely are Your ^adwelling places,

O Yahweh of hosts!

²My ^asoul has longed and even ¹fainted for the courts of Yahweh;

My heart and my flesh sing for joy to the ^bliving God.

³Even the bird has found a home,

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

At Your ^aaltars, O Yahweh of hosts,

^bMy King and my God.

⁴How ^ablessed are those who dwell in Your house!

They are ^bever praising You. ¹Selah.

⁵How blessed is the man whose ^astrength is in You,

In ¹whose heart are the ^bhighways to Zion!

⁶Passing through the valley of ¹Baca they make it a ²spring;

The ^aearly rain also wraps it up with blessings.

⁷They ^ago from strength to strength,

¹Each one of them ^bappears before God in Zion.

⁸O ^aYahweh God of hosts, hear my prayer;

Give ear, O ^bGod of Jacob! Selah.

⁹See our ^ashield, O God,

And look upon the face of ^bYour anointed.

¹⁰For ^abetter is a day in Your courts than a thousand elsewhere.

I would choose to stand at the threshold of the house of my God

Than dwell in the tents of wickedness.

¹¹For Yahweh God is ^aa sun and ^bshield;

Yahweh gives grace and ^cglory;

^dNo good thing does He withhold ¹from those who walk blamelessly.

¹²O Yahweh of hosts,

How ^ablessed is the man who trusts in You!