Psalm 83

A song. A Psalm of Asaph.

83 ¹O God, keep not thou silence:

Hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.

²For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult;

And they that hate thee have lifted up the head.

³Thy take crafty counsel against thy people,

And consult together against thy hidden ones.

⁴They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation;

That the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.

⁵For they have consulted together with one consent;

Against thee do they make a covenant:

⁶The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites;

Moab, and the Hagarenes;

⁷Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek;

Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre:

⁸Assyria also is joined with them;

They have ^ahelped the children of Lot.

Selah

⁹Do thou unto them as unto Midian,

As to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon;

¹⁰Who perished at Endor,

Who became as dung for the earth.

¹¹Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb;

Yea, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna;

¹²Who said, Let us take to ourselves in possession

The ^ahabitations of God.

¹³O my God, make them like the whirling dust;

As stubble before the wind.

¹⁴As the fire that burneth the forest,

And as the flame that setteth the mountains on fire,

¹⁵So pursue them with thy tempest,

And terrify them with thy storm.

¹⁶Fill their faces with confusion,

That they may seek thy name, O Jehovah.

¹⁷Let them be put to shame and dismayed for ever;

Yea, let them be confounded and perish;

¹⁸That they may know that ^athou alone, whose name is Jehovah,

Art the Most High over all the earth.