Psalm 83

¹O God, do not keep silence;

do not hold your peace or be still, O God!

²Even now your enemies are in tumult;

those who hate you have raised their heads.

³They lay crafty plans against your people;

they consult together against those you protect.

⁴They say, “Come, let us wipe them out as a nation;

let the name of Israel be remembered no more.”

⁵They conspire with one accord;

against you they make a covenant—

⁶the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,

Moab and the Hagrites,

⁷Gebal and Ammon and Amalek,

Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;

⁸Assyria also has joined them;

they are the strong arm of the children of Lot.   Selah

⁹Do to them as you did to Midian,

as to Sisera and Jabin at the Wadi Kishon,

¹⁰who were destroyed at En-dor,

who became dung for the ground.

¹¹Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb,

all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,

¹²who said, “Let us take the pastures of God

for our own possession.”

¹³O my God, make them like whirling dust,

like chaff before the wind.

¹⁴As fire consumes the forest,

as the flame sets the mountains ablaze,

¹⁵so pursue them with your tempest

and terrify them with your hurricane.

¹⁶Fill their faces with shame,

so that they may seek your name, O Lord.

¹⁷Let them be put to shame and dismayed forever;

let them perish in disgrace.

¹⁸Let them know that you alone,

whose name is the Lord,

are the Most High over all the earth.