Psalm 83
Hold not your peace, O God
: O God, be not silent or unmoved.
See how your enemies make uproar
: how those that hate you have lifted up their heads.
For they lay shrewd plots against your people
: they scheme against those whom you have cherished.
‘Come’, they say, ‘let us destroy them,
that they may no longer be a nation
: that the very name of Israel may be remembered no more.’
With one mind they conspire together
: they make alliance against you,
The tribes of Edom and the Ishmaelites
: the people of Moab and the Hagarites,
Gebal and Ammon and Amalek
: Philistia, and the inhabitants of Tyre;
Asshur also is joined with them
: and lends a friendly arm to the children of Lot.
Do to them as you did to Midian
: as to Sisera and Jabin at the river of Kishon,
Who were destroyed at Endor
: and became like dung for the earth.
Make their leaders as Oreb and Zeeb
: and all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
Who said ‘Let us take possession
: let us seize the pastures of God.’
Make them like thistledown, my God
: or like chaff blown before the wind.
As fire consuming a thicket
: or as flame that sets the hillsides ablaze,
Pursue them with your tempest
: and terrify them with your storm-wind.
Cover their faces with shame, O Lord
: that they may seek your name.
[Let them be disgraced and dismayed for ever
: let them be confounded and perish,]
That they may know that you, whose name is the Lord
: are alone the Most High over all the earth.