Psalms 83

A song. A psalm of Asaph.

1O God, do not be silent!

Do not be deaf.

Do not be quiet, O God.

2Don’t you hear the uproar of your enemies?

Don’t you see that your arrogant enemies are rising up?

3They devise crafty schemes against your people;

they conspire against your precious ones.

4“Come,” they say, “let us wipe out Israel as a nation.

We will destroy the very memory of its existence.”

5Yes, this was their unanimous decision.

They signed a treaty as allies against you—

6these Edomites and Ishmaelites;

Moabites and Hagrites;

7Gebalites, Ammonites, and Amalekites;

and people from Philistia and Tyre.

8Assyria has joined them, too,

and is allied with the descendants of Lot. Interlude

9Do to them as you did to the Midianites

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

10They were destroyed at Endor,

and their decaying corpses fertilized the soil.

11Let their mighty nobles die as Oreb and Zeeb did.

Let all their princes die like Zebah and Zalmunna,

12for they said, “Let us seize for our own use

these pasturelands of God!”

13O my God, scatter them like tumbleweed,

like chaff before the wind!

14As a fire burns a forest

and as a flame sets mountains ablaze,

15chase them with your fierce storm;

terrify them with your tempest.

16Utterly disgrace them

until they submit to your name, O Lord.

17Let them be ashamed and terrified forever.

Let them die in disgrace.

18Then they will learn that you alone are called the Lord,

that you alone are the Most High,

supreme over all the earth.

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Psalms 83

Prayer to Frustrate Conspiracy Against Israel

A Song. A Psalm of Asaph.

1Do#Ps. 28:1 not keep silent, O God!

Do not hold Your peace,

And do not be still, O God!

2For behold, #Ps. 81:15; Is. 17:12; Acts 4:25Your enemies make a tumult;

And those who hate You have lifted up their head.

3They have taken crafty counsel against Your people,

And consulted together #(Ps. 27:5)against Your sheltered ones.

4They have said, “Come, and #Esth. 3:6, 9; Jer. 11:19; 31:36let us cut them off from being a nation,

That the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”

5For they have consulted together with one consent;

They form a confederacy against You:

6#2 Chr. 20:1, 10, 11The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites;

Moab and the Hagrites;

7Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek;

Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;

8Assyria also has joined with them;

They have helped the children of Lot.

Selah

9Deal with them as with #Num. 31:7; Judg. 7:22Midian,

As with #Judg. 4:15–24; 5:20, 21Sisera,

As with Jabin at the Brook Kishon,

10Who perished at En Dor,

#Zeph. 1:17Who became as refuse on the earth.

11Make their nobles like #Judg. 7:25Oreb and like Zeeb,

Yes, all their princes like #Judg. 8:12–21Zebah and Zalmunna,

12Who said, “Let us take for ourselves

The pastures of God for a possession.”

13#Is. 17:13O my God, make them like the whirling dust,

#Job 21:18; Ps. 35:5; Is. 40:24; Jer. 13:24Like the chaff before the wind!

14As the fire burns the woods,

And as the flame #Ex. 19:18; Deut. 32:22sets the mountains on fire,

15So pursue them with Your tempest,

And frighten them with Your storm.

16Fill their faces with shame,

That they may seek Your name, O Lord.

17Let them be confounded and dismayed forever;

Yes, let them be put to shame and perish,

18#Ps. 59:13That they may know that You, whose #Ex. 6:3name alone is the Lord,

Are #(Ps. 92:8)the Most High over all the earth.

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