Psalms 83
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Psalm 83
Prayer for Judgment on Israel’s Foes
A Song. A Psalm of Asaph.
1 #
Ps 28.1; 109.1 O God, do not keep silent;
do not hold your peace or be still, O God!
2 #
Ps 2.1; 81.15 Even now your enemies are in tumult;
those who hate you have raised their heads.
3 #
Ps 27.5
They lay crafty plans against your people;
they consult together against those you protect.
4 #
Esth 3.6
They say, “Come, let us wipe them out as a nation;
let the name of Israel be remembered no more.”
5 #
Ps 2.2
They conspire with one accord;
against you they make a covenant—
6 #
2 Chr 20.1, 10, 11 the 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 them;
they are the strong arm of the children of Lot. Selah
9 #
Judg 4.22, 23 Do to them as you did to Midian,
as to Sisera and Jabin at the Wadi Kishon,
10who were destroyed at En-dor,
who became dung for the ground.
11 #
Judg 8.12, 21 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb,
all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
12 #
2 Chr 20.11; Ps 132.13 who said, “Let us take the pastures of God
for our own possession.”
13 #
Ps 35.5; Isa 7.13 O my God, make them like whirling dust,#83.13 Or a tumbleweed
like chaff before the wind.
14 #
Deut 32.22
As fire consumes the forest,
as the flame sets the mountains ablaze,
15 #
Job 9.17
so pursue them with your tempest
and terrify them with your hurricane.
16Fill their faces with shame,
so that they may seek your name, O Lord.
17 #
Ps 70.2
Let them be put to shame and dismayed forever;
let them perish in disgrace.
18 #
Ex 6.3; Ps 59.13; 92.8 Let them know that you alone,
whose name is the Lord,
are the Most High over all the earth.
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