Psalms 83
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
83
A Request to Act against Israel’s Neighbors
A song. A psalm of Asaph.#The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one
1O God, do not rest silently.
Do not keep silent or be still, O God.
2For look, your enemies roar,
and those who hate you have lifted their head.
3They devise cunning schemes#Hebrew “scheme” against your people,
and consult together against your protected ones.#Or “your treasured ones”
4They say, “Come, let us annihilate them from being a nation,
so that the name of Israel will be remembered no more.”
5For they have consulted together with a unified purpose.#Literally “with a heart together”
They have made a covenant against you:
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 with them.
They provide help#Literally “they have become an arm for” to the children of Lot. Selah
9Do to them as you did with Midian,
as with Sisera, as with Jabin at the wadi of Kishon.
10They were destroyed at En-dor;
they became dung for the ground.
11Make their leaders like Oreb and Zeeb,
and all their chiefs like Zebah and Zalmunna,
12who said, “Let us take as our possession
the pastures of God.”
13O my God, make them like the tumbleweed,
like the chaff before wind.
14As fire burns a forest,
and as a flame sets afire mountains,
15so pursue them with your tempest
and terrify them with your storm.
16Fill their faces with shame,
that they may seek your name, O Yahweh.
17Let them be ashamed and terrified forever,
and let them be humiliated and perish
18that they may know that you,
whose name is Yahweh, you alone,
are the Most High over the whole earth.
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