Psalm 83

¹A Song,—A Psalm of Asaph. O God, let there be no silence to Thee, Be not silent, nor be quiet, O God.

²For, lo, Thine enemies do roar, And those hating Thee have lifted up the head,

³Against Thy people they take crafty counsel, And consult against Thy hidden ones.

⁴They have said, ‘Come, And we cut them off from being a nation, And the name of Israel is not remembered any more.’

⁵For they consulted in heart together, Against Thee a covenant they make,

⁶Tents of Edom, and Ishmaelites, Moab, and the Hagarenes,

⁷Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia with inhabitants of Tyre,

⁸Asshur also is joined with them, They have been an arm to sons of Lot. Selah.

⁹Do to them as to Midian, As to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the stream Kishon.

¹⁰They were destroyed at Endor, They were dung for the ground!

¹¹Make their nobles as Oreb and as Zeeb, And as Zebah and Zalmunna all their princes,

¹²Who have said, ‘Let us occupy for ourselves The comely places of God.’

¹³O my God, make them as a rolling thing, As stubble before wind.

¹⁴As a fire doth burn a forest, And as a flame setteth hills on fire,

¹⁵So dost Thou pursue them with Thy whirlwind, And with Thy hurricane troublest them.

¹⁶Fill their faces with shame, And they seek Thy name, O Jehovah.

¹⁷They are ashamed and troubled for ever, Yea, they are confounded and lost.

¹⁸And they know that Thou—(Thy name is Jehovah—by Thyself,) Art the Most High over all the earth!

Psalm 84