Psalm 83
EasyEnglish Bible
This psalm is a song that Asaph wrote.
Israel's enemies
83 God, do not continue to be silent!
Do not remain quiet.
Please do something!
2 Look! Your enemies are causing trouble.
The people who hate you are ready to attack.
3 They decide carefully how they will attack your people.
They want to hurt the people that you love.
4 They say, ‘Come now! We will destroy them.
They will no longer be a nation.
Nobody will remember the name of Israel any more.’
5 They agree together what they will do.
They join one another to fight against you.
6 Those enemies are Edomites and Ishmaelites,
Moabites and Hagrites.
7 They also come from Gebal, Ammon and Amalek,
Philistia and Tyre.
8 Even the Assyrian army has joined with them.
They have given strength to Lot's descendants,
the Moabites and the Ammonites.
Selah.
9 God, punish them as you punished Midian.
Do what you did to Sisera and Jabin at the River Kishon.[a]
10 You destroyed them at Endor.
Their bodies remained on the ground, like dirt.
11 Do to their leaders
what you did to Oreb and Zeeb.
Let their rulers die,
like Zebah and Zalmunna.[b]
12 Those people said,
‘Let us take God's valuable country for ourselves!’
13 God, blow them away like dust,
like chaff that blows away in the wind!
14 Go after them,
like a fire that burns both forest and mountains.
15 Chase them away with your storms.
Frighten them with your strong winds.
16 Cause them to be very ashamed, Lord,
so that they might turn to you.
17 May they always be ashamed and frightened.
Let them die with shame![c]
18 Then they will understand that you are the Lord.
They will know that you are the Most High God
who rules over all the earth.
Footnotes
- 83:9 Jabin was king of Hazor. Sisera was the leader of his army. A woman (Jael) killed Sisera as he hid in her tent. Two leaders of Israel destroyed Jabin's army at the River Kishon. See Judges 4:1-24.
- 83:11 Oreb and Zeeb were rulers in Midian. People from Ephraim killed them. See Judges 7:24-25. Gideon killed Zebah and Zalmunna. See Judges 8:21. They were kings of Midian.
- 83:17 The writer wants Israel's enemies to turn to God when they see his power. But he knows that this may not happen. So he prays that God will punish them if they do not turn to worship him.
诗篇 83
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)
祈求上帝击败仇敌
亚萨的诗。
83 上帝啊，求你不要缄默无声，
一言不发。
2 看啊，你的敌人在喧嚷，
恨你的人趾高气扬。
3 他们用诡计害你的子民，
他们一起谋害你所疼爱的人。
4 他们说：
“来吧，让我们铲除以色列，
让他们亡国，被人遗忘。”
5 他们串通一气，
勾结起来抵挡你。
6 他们是以东人、以实玛利人、摩押人、夏甲人、
7 迦巴勒人、亚扪人、亚玛力人、非利士人和泰尔人。
8 亚述也跟他们勾结，
要助罗得的后代一臂之力。（细拉）
9 求你对付他们，
如同对付米甸人和基顺河边的西西拉与耶宾。
10 他们在隐·多珥灭亡，
成了地上的粪土。
11 求你使他们的首领得到俄立和西伊伯那样的下场，
使他们的王侯得到西巴和撒慕拿那样的下场。
12 他们曾说：
“让我们夺取上帝的草场吧。”
13 我的上帝啊，求你把他们驱散，
如同狂风吹散尘土和碎秸。
14 烈火怎样烧毁森林，
火焰怎样吞没山岭，
15 求你也照样用狂风追赶他们，
用暴雨恐吓他们。
16 耶和华啊，
求你使他们满面羞愧，
这样他们才会来寻求你。
17 愿他们永远羞愧惊恐，
愿他们在耻辱中灭亡。
18 让他们知道你是耶和华，
唯有你是普天下的至高者。
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