Psalm 83 NKJV NLT Parallel

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◄ Psalm 83 ►

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1A Song. A Psalm of Asaph. Do not keep silent, O God! Do not hold Your peace, And do not be still, O God!

1O God, do not be silent! Do not be deaf. Do not be quiet, O God.

2For behold, Your enemies make a tumult; And those who hate You have lifted up their head.

2Don’t you hear the uproar of your enemies? Don’t you see that your arrogant enemies are rising up?

3They have taken crafty counsel against Your people, And consulted together against Your sheltered ones.

3They devise crafty schemes against your people; they conspire against your precious ones.

4They have said, “Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”

4“Come,” they say, “let us wipe out Israel as a nation. We will destroy the very memory of its existence.”

5For they have consulted together with one consent; They form a confederacy against You:

5Yes, this was their unanimous decision. They signed a treaty as allies against you—

6The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab and the Hagrites;

6these Edomites and Ishmaelites; Moabites and Hagrites;

7Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;

7Gebalites, Ammonites, and Amalekites; and people from Philistia and Tyre.

8Assyria also has joined with them; They have helped the children of Lot. Selah

8Assyria has joined them, too, and is allied with the descendants of Lot. Interlude

9Deal with them as with Midian, As with Sisera, As with Jabin at the Brook Kishon,

9Do to them as you did to the Midianites and as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River.

10Who perished at En Dor, Who became as refuse on the earth.

10They were destroyed at Endor, and their decaying corpses fertilized the soil.

11Make their nobles like Oreb and like Zeeb, Yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,

11Let their mighty nobles die as Oreb and Zeeb did. Let all their princes die like Zebah and Zalmunna,

12Who said, “Let us take for ourselves The pastures of God for a possession.”

12for they said, “Let us seize for our own use these pasturelands of God!”

13O my God, make them like the whirling dust, Like the chaff before the wind!

13O my God, scatter them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind!

14As the fire burns the woods, And as the flame sets the mountains on fire,

14As a fire burns a forest and as a flame sets mountains ablaze,

15So pursue them with Your tempest, And frighten them with Your storm.

15chase them with your fierce storm; terrify them with your tempest.

16Fill their faces with shame, That they may seek Your name, O LORD.

16Utterly disgrace them until they submit to your name, O LORD.

17Let them be confounded and dismayed forever; Yes, let them be put to shame and perish,

17Let them be ashamed and terrified forever. Let them die in disgrace.

18That they may know that You, whose name alone is the LORD, Are the Most High over all the earth.

18Then they will learn that you alone are called the LORD, that you alone are the Most High, supreme over all the earth.