Chapter 83
- O God, Do Not Keep Silence A Song. A Psalm of Asaph. O God, do not keep silence; do not hold your peace or be still, O God!
- For behold, your enemies make an uproar; those who hate you have raised their heads.
- They lay crafty plans against your people; they consult together against your treasured ones.
- They say, Come, let us wipe them out as a nation; let the name of Israel be remembered no more!
- For they conspire with one accord; against you they make a covenant —
- the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites,
- Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
- Asshur also has joined them; they are the strong arm of the children of Lot.
- Do to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon,
- who were destroyed at En-dor, who became dung for the ground.
- Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
- who said, Let us take possession for ourselves of the pastures of God.
- O my God, make them like whirling dust, like chaff before the wind.
- As fire consumes the forest, as the flame sets the mountains ablaze,
- so may you pursue them with your tempest and terrify them with your hurricane!
- Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek your name, O Adonai.
- Let them be put to shame and dismayed forever; let them perish in disgrace,
- that they may know that you alone, whose name is the Adonai, are the Most High over all the earth.