Psalm 83:1WEB
God, don’t keep silent. Don’t keep silent, and don’t be still, God.
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A song. A Psalm by Asaph.
Psalm 83:1WEB
God, don’t keep silent. Don’t keep silent, and don’t be still, God.
Psalm 83:2WEB
For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.
Psalm 83:3WEB
They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones.
Psalm 83:4WEB
“Come,” they say, “let’s destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”
Psalm 83:5WEB
For they have conspired together with one mind. They form an alliance against you.
Psalm 83:6WEB
The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagrites;
Psalm 83:7WEB
Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
Psalm 83:8WEB
Assyria also is joined with them. They have helped the children of Lot. Selah.
Psalm 83:9WEB
Do to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon;
Psalm 83:10WEB
who perished at Endor, who became as dung for the earth.
Psalm 83:11WEB
Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
Psalm 83:12WEB
who said, “Let’s take possession of God’s pasture lands.”
Psalm 83:13WEB
My God, make them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind.
Psalm 83:14WEB
As the fire that burns the forest, as the flame that sets the mountains on fire,
Psalm 83:15WEB
so pursue them with your tempest, and terrify them with your storm.
Psalm 83:16WEB
Fill their faces with confusion, that they may seek your name, Yahweh.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Psalm 83:17WEB
Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish;
Psalm 83:18WEB
that they may know that you alone, whose name is Yahweh, are the Most High over all the earth.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain.