Psalms 83

¹ God, don’t keep silent. Don’t keep silent, and don’t be still, God.

² For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.

³ They conspire with cunning against your people.

⁴ “ Come, ” they say, “let’s destroy them as a nation,

⁵ For they have conspired together with one mind.

⁶ The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagrites;

⁷ Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;

⁸ Assyria also is joined with them.

⁹ Do to them as you did to Midian,

¹⁰ who perished at Endor,

¹¹ Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,

¹² who said, “Let’s take possession of God’s pasture lands.”

¹³ My God, make them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind.

¹⁴ As the fire that burns the forest,

¹⁵ so pursue them with your tempest,

¹⁶ Fill their faces with confusion,

¹⁷ Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish;

¹⁸ that they may know that you alone, whose name is the LORD, are the Most High over all the earth.