Psalms 83
83
Psalm 83
A song; a psalm by Asaph.
1O God, do not remain silent.
Do not turn a deaf ear to me.
Do not keep quiet, O God.
2Look, your enemies are in an uproar.
Those who hate you hold their heads high.
3They make plans in secret against your people
and plot together against those you treasure.
4They say, “Let’s wipe out their nation
so that the name of Israel will no longer be remembered.”
5They agree completely on their plan.
They form an alliance against you:
6the tents from Edom and Ishmael,
Moab and Hagar,
7Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek,
Philistia, along with those who live in Tyre.
8Even Assyria has joined them.
They helped the descendants of Lot. Selah
9Do to them what you did to Midian,
to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River.
10They were destroyed at Endor.
They became manure to fertilize the ground.
11Treat their influential people as you treated Oreb and Zeeb.
Treat all their leaders like Zebah and Zalmunna.
12They said, “Let’s take God’s pasturelands for ourselves.”
13O my God, blow them away like tumbleweeds,#83:13 Or “whirling dust.”
like husks in the wind.
14Pursue them with your storms,
and terrify them with your windstorms
15the way fire burns a forest
and flames set mountains on fire.#83:15 Verse 15 (in Hebrew) has been placed in front of verse 14 to express the complex Hebrew sentence structure more clearly in English.
16Let their faces blush with shame, O Lord,
so that they must look to you for help.
17Let them be put to shame and terrified forever.
Let them die in disgrace
18so that they must acknowledge you.
Your name is the Lord.
You alone are the Most High God of the whole earth.
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Psalms 83
83
Prayer against Enemies
A song. A psalm of Asaph. # 1Ch 16:5,7
1God, do not keep silent.
Do not be deaf, God; do not be idle. # Ps 28:1; 39:12; Is 62:1
2See how Your enemies make an uproar;
those who hate You have acted arrogantly. # Lit have lifted their head # Ps 2:1; Is 17:12
3They devise clever schemes against Your people;
they conspire against Your treasured ones. # Jb 5:12-13; Ps 37:12; 64:2
4They say, “Come, let us wipe them out as a nation
so that Israel’s name will no longer be remembered.” # Ps 41:5; Jr 11:19
5For they have conspired with one mind;
they form an alliance # Lit they cut a covenant against You # Ps 2:2 —
6the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, # Gn 25:12-16; Ps 137:7
Moab and the Hagrites, # 1Ch 5:10; 2Ch 20:10
7Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, # Jos 13:5; 1Sm 15:2
Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre. # 1Sm 4:1; Ezk 27:3
8Even Assyria has joined them;
they lend support # Lit they are an arm to the sons of Lot. # = Moab and Edom # 2Kg 15:19Selah
9Deal with them as You did with Midian, # Nm 31:7; Jdg 7:1-24
as You did with Sisera
and Jabin at the Kishon River. # Jdg 4:7; 5:21
10They were destroyed at En-dor;
they became manure for the ground. # Jr 9:22; 16:4; 25:33
11Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, # Jdg 7:25; 8:3
and all their tribal leaders like Zebah and Zalmunna, # Jdg 8:5-21
12who said, “Let us seize God’s pastures for ourselves.” # 2Ch 20:11
13Make them like tumbleweed, my God,
like straw before the wind. # Jb 21:18; Ps 1:4; Is 17:13
14As fire burns a forest,
as a flame blazes through mountains, # Is 9:18; 10:16-19
15so pursue them with Your tempest
and terrify them with Your storm. # Jb 9:17; Ps 58:9
16Cover their faces with shame
so that they will seek Your name Yahweh. # Ps 35:26; 109:29; 132:18
17Let them be put to shame and terrified forever;
let them perish in disgrace. # Ps 35:4; 70:2
18May they know that You alone —
whose name is Yahweh —
are the Most High over all the earth. # Ps 97:9
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