Psalm 83

A song. A psalm of Asaph.

¹O God, do not be silent!

Do not be deaf.

Do not be quiet, O God.

²Don’t you hear the uproar of your enemies?

Don’t you see that your arrogant enemies are rising up?

³They devise crafty schemes against your people;

they conspire against your precious ones.

⁴“Come,” they say, “let us wipe out Israel as a nation.

We will destroy the very memory of its existence.”

⁵Yes, this was their unanimous decision.

They signed a treaty as allies against you—

⁶these Edomites and Ishmaelites;

Moabites and Hagrites;

⁷Gebalites, Ammonites, and Amalekites;

and people from Philistia and Tyre.

⁸Assyria has joined them, too,

and is allied with the descendants of Lot. Interlude

⁹Do to them as you did to the Midianites

and as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River.

¹⁰They were destroyed at Endor,

and their decaying corpses fertilized the soil.

¹¹Let their mighty nobles die as Oreb and Zeeb did.

Let all their princes die like Zebah and Zalmunna,

¹²for they said, “Let us seize for our own use

these pasturelands of God!”

¹³O my God, scatter them like tumbleweed,

like chaff before the wind!

¹⁴As a fire burns a forest

and as a flame sets mountains ablaze,

¹⁵chase them with your fierce storm;

terrify them with your tempest.

¹⁶Utterly disgrace them

until they submit to your name, O Lord.

¹⁷Let them be ashamed and terrified forever.

Let them die in disgrace.

¹⁸Then they will learn that you alone are called the Lord,

that you alone are the Most High,

supreme over all the earth.