Psalm 83–84

PSALM 83

A Song. A Psalm of Asaph.

¹O God, do not keep silence;

do not hold thy peace or be still, O God!

²For lo, thy enemies are in tumult;

those who hate thee have raised their heads.

³They lay crafty plans against thy people;

they consult together against thy protected ones.

⁴They say, “Come, let us wipe them out as a nation;

let the name of Israel be remembered no more!”

⁵Yea, they conspire with one accord;

against thee they make a covenant—

⁶the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,

Moab and the Hagrites,

⁷Gebal and Ammon and Amalek,

Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;

⁸Assyria also has joined them;

they are the strong arm of the children of Lot. Selah

⁹Do to them as thou didst to Midian,

as to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon,

¹⁰who were destroyed at En-dor,

who became dung for the ground.

¹¹Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb,

all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,

¹²who said, “Let us take possession for ourselves

of the pastures of God.”

¹³O my God, make them like whirling dust,

like chaff before the wind.

¹⁴As fire consumes the forest,

as the flame sets the mountains ablaze,

¹⁵so do thou pursue them with thy tempest

and terrify them with thy hurricane!

¹⁶Fill their faces with shame,

that they may seek thy name, O Lord.

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

let them perish in disgrace.

¹⁸Let them know that thou alone,

whose name is the Lord,

art the Most High over all the earth.

PSALM 84

To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah.

¹How lovely is thy dwelling place,

O Lord of hosts!

²My soul longs, yea, faints

for the courts of the Lord;

my heart and flesh sing for joy

to the living God.

³Even the sparrow finds a home,

and the swallow a nest for herself,

where she may lay her young,

at thy altars, O Lord of hosts,

my King and my God.

⁴Blessed are those who dwell in thy house,

ever singing thy praise! Selah

⁵Blessed are the men whose strength is in thee,

in whose heart are the highways to Zion.^r

⁶As they go through the valley of Baca

they make it a place of springs;

the early rain also covers it with pools.

⁷They go from strength to strength;

the God of gods will be seen in Zion.

⁸O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer;

give ear, O God of Jacob! Selah

⁹Behold our shield, O God;

look upon the face of thine anointed!

¹⁰For a day in thy courts is better

than a thousand elsewhere.

I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God

than dwell in the tents of wickedness.

¹¹For the Lord God is a sun and shield;

he bestows favor and honor.

No good thing does the Lord withhold

from those who walk uprightly.

¹²O Lord of hosts,

blessed is the man who trusts in thee!