Psalms 83
83:1
God, don’t keep silent. Don’t keep silent, and don’t be still, God.
83:2
For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.
83:3
They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones.
83:4
“Come,” they say, “let’s destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”
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For they have conspired together with one mind. They form an alliance against you.
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The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagrites;
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Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
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Assyria also is joined with them. They have helped the children of Lot. Selah.
83:9
Do to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon;
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who perished at Endor, who became as dung for the earth.
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Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb; yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna;
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who said, “Let us take possession of God’s pasture lands.”
83:13
My God, make them like tumbleweed; like chaff before the wind.
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As the fire that burns the forest, as the flame that sets the mountains on fire,
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so pursue them with your tempest, and terrify them with your storm.
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Fill their faces with confusion, that they may seek your name, Yahweh.
83:17
Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish;
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that they may know that you alone, whose name is Yahweh, are the Most High over all the earth.