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Psalm 83

Prayer for Judgement on Israel’s Foes

A Song. A Psalm of Asaph.
¹ O God, do not keep silence;
   do not hold your peace or be still, O God!
² Even now your enemies are in tumult;
   those who hate you have raised their heads.
³ They lay crafty plans against your people;
   they consult together against those you protect.
⁴ They say, ‘Come, let us wipe them out as a nation;
   let the name of Israel be remembered no more.’
⁵ They conspire with one accord;
   against you they make a covenant—
⁶ the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,
   Moab and the Hagrites,
⁷ Gebal and Ammon and Amalek,
   Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
⁸ Assyria also has joined them;
   they are the strong arm of the children of Lot.
          Selah

⁹ Do to them as you did to Midian,
   as to Sisera and Jabin at the Wadi Kishon,
¹⁰ who were destroyed at En-dor,
   who became dung for the ground.
¹¹ Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb,
   all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
¹² who said, ‘Let us take the pastures of God
   for our own possession.’

¹³ O my God, make them like whirling dust,^*
   like chaff before the wind.
¹⁴ As fire consumes the forest,
   as the flame sets the mountains ablaze,
¹⁵ so pursue them with your tempest
   and terrify them with your hurricane.
¹⁶ Fill their faces with shame,
   so that they may seek your name, O Lord.
¹⁷ Let them be put to shame and dismayed for ever;
   let them perish in disgrace.
¹⁸ Let them know that you alone,
   whose name is the Lord,
   are the Most High over all the earth.