Psalm 83
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1God, do not keep silent. Do not be deaf, God; do not be quiet.1A song, a psalm of Asaph. O God, do not be silent! Do not ignore us! Do not be inactive, O God!
2See how your enemies make an uproar; those who hate you have acted arrogantly.2For look, your enemies are making a commotion; those who hate you are hostile.
3They devise clever schemes against your people; they conspire against your treasured ones.3They carefully plot against your people, and make plans to harm the ones you cherish.
4They say, "Come, let us wipe them out as a nation so that Israel's name will no longer be remembered."4They say, "Come on, let's annihilate them so they are no longer a nation! Then the name of Israel will be remembered no more."
5For they have conspired with one mind; they form an alliance against you--5Yes, they devise a unified strategy; they form an alliance against you.
6the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites,6It includes the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites,
7Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre.7Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia and the inhabitants of Tyre.
8Even Assyria has joined them; they lend support to the sons of Lot. Selah8Even Assyria has allied with them, lending its strength to the descendants of Lot. (Selah)
9Deal with them as you did with Midian, as you did with Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River.9Do to them as you did to Midian--as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River!
10They were destroyed at En-dor; they became manure for the ground.10They were destroyed at Endor; their corpses were like manure on the ground.
11Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, and all their tribal leaders like Zebah and Zalmunna,11Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, and all their rulers like Zebah and Zalmunna,
12who said, "Let us seize God's pastures for ourselves."12who said, "Let's take over the pastures of God!"
13Make them like tumbleweed, my God, like straw before the wind.13O my God, make them like dead thistles, like dead weeds blown away by the wind!
14As fire burns a forest, as a flame blazes through mountains,14Like the fire that burns down the forest, or the flames that consume the mountainsides,
15so pursue them with your tempest and terrify them with your storm.15chase them with your gale winds, and terrify them with your windstorm.
16Cover their faces with shame so that they will seek your name, LORD.16Cover their faces with shame, so they might seek you, O LORD.
17Let them be put to shame and terrified forever; let them perish in disgrace.17May they be humiliated and continually terrified! May they die in shame!
18May they know that you alone--whose name is the LORD--are the Most High over the whole earth.18Then they will know that you alone are the LORD, the sovereign king over all the earth.
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Psalm 82
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