Psalm 83

A Prayer Against the Enemies

A song. A psalm of Asaph.

83God, do not keep quiet;

God, do not be silent or still.

²Your enemies are making noises;

those who hate you are getting ready to attack.

³They are making secret plans against your people;

they plot against those you love.

⁴They say, “Come, let’s destroy them as a nation.

Then no one will ever remember the name ‘Israel.’ ”

⁵They are united in their plan.

These have made an agreement against you:

⁶the families of Edom and the Ishmaelites,

Moab and the Hagrites,

⁷the people of Byblos, Ammon, Amalek,

Philistia, and Tyre.

⁸Even Assyria has joined them

to help Ammon and Moab, the descendants of Lot.

Selah

⁹God, do to them what you did to Midian,

what you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River.

¹⁰They died at Endor,

and their bodies rotted on the ground.

¹¹Do to their important leaders what you did to Oreb and Zeeb.

Do to their princes what you did to Zebah and Zalmunna.

¹²They said, “Let’s take for ourselves

the pasturelands that belong to God.”

¹³My God, make them like tumbleweed,

like chaff blown away by the wind.

¹⁴Be like a fire that burns a forest

or like flames that blaze through the hills.

¹⁵Chase them with your storm,

and frighten them with your wind.

¹⁶Cover them with shame.

Then people will look for you, Lord.

¹⁷Make them afraid and ashamed forever.

Disgrace them and destroy them.

¹⁸Then they will know that you are the Lord,

that only you are God Most High over all the earth.