Psalms 83
83
God, Don’t Be Silent # 83 The historical background to this psalm may be found in 2 Chron. 20:14–36.
Asaph’s poetic song
1God, you have to do something! # 83:1 Both the Aramaic and the Septuagint add a line in verse 1: “God, who is like you?” Don’t be silent and just sit idly by.
2-3Can’t you see what they’re doing?
All your enemies are stirred up in an uproar!
They despise you, Lord.
In their defiant arrogance they rise up
to host their secret council against your people.
They conspire together to come and harm
your cherished ones—your hidden ones.
4Our enemies keep saying,
“Now is the time to wipe Israel off the map.
We’ll destroy even the memory of her existence!”
5They’ve made their pact, consulting and conspiring,
aligning together in their covenant against God.
6-8All the sons of Ishmael, the desert sheiks and the nomadic tribes, Amalekites, Canaanites, Moabites,
and all the nations that surround us,
Philistines, Phoenicians, Gadarenes, and Samaritans; # 83:6–8 As translated from the Aramaic. The Greek is “It includes the tents of Edom and Ishmael [Palestinians and those of southern Jordan], Moab [Palestinians and those of central Jordan] and Hagrites [Egyptians or possibly northern Jordanians], Gebal [Byblos and northern Lebanon], Ammon [Palestinians and northern Jordanians] and Amalek [Arabs of the Sinai Peninsula], Philistia [Gaza], and the inhabitants of Tyre [southern Lebanese]. Even Assyria [Syrians and northern Iraqis] has become their ally as an arm [military might] for the sons of Lot.” This comprises virtually every neighbor surrounding Israel.
allied together they’re ready to attack!
Pause in his presence
9Do to them all what you did to the Midianites
who were defeated by Gideon.
Or what you did to Sisera and Jabin
when Deborah and Barak defeated them by the Kishon River.
10Do to your enemies what you did at Endor,
whose rotting corpses fertilized the land.
11-12Repeat history, God! Make all their “noble ones”
die like Oreb, Zebah, and Zalmunna, who said in their pride,
“We will seize God’s people along with all their pleasant lands!”
13Blow them away, God, like straw in the wind,
like a tumbleweed in the wilderness!
14Burn them up like a raging fire roaring down the mountainside;
consume them all until only charred sticks remain!
15Chase them away like before a mighty storm and terrifying tempest.
16O Lord, disgrace them until their faces fill with shame,
and make them acknowledge the glory of your name.
17Make them utter failures in everything they do
until they perish in total disgrace and humiliation,
18so they will know that you, and you alone,
are Yahweh, the only Most High God exalted over all the earth!
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Learn More About The Passion TranslationTehillim (Psalms) 83
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1O Elohim, do not remain silent! Do not be speechless, And do not be still, O Ěl!
2For look, Your enemies make an uproar, And those hating You have lifted up their head.
3They craftily plot against Your people, And conspire against Your treasured ones.
4They have said, “Come, And let us wipe them out as a nation, And let the name of Yisra’ĕl be remembered no more.”
5For they have conspired together with one heart; They have made a covenant against You –
6The tents of Eḏom and the Yishma‛ĕlites, Mo’aḇ and the Haḡarites,
7Geḇal, and Ammon, and Amalĕq, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tsor,
8Ashshur also has joined with them, They have helped the children of Lot. Selah.
9Do to them as to Miḏyan, As to Sisera, As to Yaḇin at the wadi Qishon,
10Who perished at Ěndor, Who became as dung for the ground.
11Make their nobles like Orĕḇ and like Ze’ĕḇ, And all their princes like Zeḇaḥ and Tsalmunna,
12Who have said, “Let us take possession of the pastures of Elohim For ourselves.”
13O my Elohim, make them as whirling dust, As stubble before the wind!
14As a fire consumes a forest, And as a flame sets mountains on fire,
15So pursue them with Your whirlwind, And frighten them with Your storm.
16Fill their faces with shame, And let them seek Your Name,#See Psa. 44:21, 22; Psa. 74:18; Isa. 52:5; Jer. 23:26, 27 O יהוה.
17Let them be ashamed and alarmed forever; And let them become abashed and perish,
18And let them know that You, Whose Name is יהוה, You alone are the Most High over all the earth.
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