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A Prayer Against the Enemies

A song. A psalm of Asaph.

83 God, do not keep quiet;

God, do not be silent or still.

Your enemies are making noises;

those who hate you are getting ready to attack.

They are making secret plans against your people;

they plot against those you love.

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

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

They are united in their plan.

These have made an agreement against you:

the families of Edom and the Ishmaelites,

Moab and the Hagrites,

the people of Byblos, Ammon, Amalek,

Philistia, and Tyre.

Even Assyria has joined them

to help Ammon and Moab, the descendants of Lot.

Selah

God, do to them what you did to Midian,

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

10  They died at Endor,

and their bodies rotted on the ground.

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

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

12  They said, “Let’s take for ourselves

the pasturelands that belong to God.”

13  My God, make them like tumbleweed,

like chaff blown away by the wind.

14  Be like a fire that burns a forest

or like flames that blaze through the hills.

15  Chase them with your storm,

and frighten them with your wind.

16  Cover them with shame.

Then people will look for you, Lord.

17  Make them afraid and ashamed forever.

Disgrace them and destroy them.

18  Then they will know that you are the Lord,

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

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