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Psalms 83

God implored to confound his enemies.

A Song, a Psalm of Asaph.

¹A Song. A Psalm of Asaph.

²O God, do not keep silence; do not hold thy peace or be still, O God!

³For lo, thy enemies are in tumult; those who hate thee have raised their heads.

⁴They lay crafty plans against thy people; they consult together against thy protected ones.

⁵They say, "Come, let us wipe them out as a nation; let the name of Israel be remembered no more!"

⁶Yea, they conspire with one accord; against thee they make a covenant--

⁷the tents of Edom and the Ish'maelites, Moab and the Hagrites,

⁸Gebal and Ammon and Am'alek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;

⁹Assyria also has joined them; they are the strong arm of the children of Lot. [Selah]

¹⁰Do to them as thou didst to Mid'ian, as to Sis'era and Jabin at the river Kishon,

¹¹who were destroyed at En-dor, who became dung for the ground.

¹²Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmun'na,

¹³who said, "Let us take possession for ourselves of the pastures of God."

¹⁴O my God, make them like whirling dust, like chaff before the wind.

¹⁵As fire consumes the forest, as the flame sets the mountains ablaze,

¹⁶so do thou pursue them with thy tempest and terrify them with thy hurricane!

¹⁷Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek thy name, O LORD.

¹⁸Let them be put to shame and dismayed for ever; let them perish in disgrace. [ (Psalms 83:19) Let them know that thou alone, whose name is the LORD, art the Most High over all the earth. ]

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