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Psalm 83

A song; a psalm by Asaph.

O Elohim, do not remain silent.
    Do not turn a deaf ear to me.
    Do not keep quiet, O El.

Look, your enemies are in an uproar.
    Those who hate you hold their heads high.
        They make plans in secret against your people
            and plot together against those you treasure.
        They say, “Let’s wipe out their nation
            so that the name of Israel will no longer be remembered.”
        They agree completely on their plan.
        They form an alliance against you:
            the tents from Edom and Ishmael,
            Moab and Hagar,
            Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek,
            Philistia, along with those who live in Tyre.
            Even Assyria has joined them.
                They helped the descendants of Lot. Selah
Do to them what you did to Midian,
    to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River.
10 They were destroyed at Endor.
    They became manure to fertilize the ground.
11 Treat their influential people as you treated Oreb and Zeeb.
    Treat all their leaders like Zebah and Zalmunna.
12 They said, “Let’s take Elohim’s pasturelands for ourselves.”
13 O my Elohim, blow them away like tumbleweeds,[a]
    like husks in the wind.
14 Pursue them with your storms,
    and terrify them with your windstorms
15 the way fire burns a forest
    and flames set mountains on fire.[b]
16 Let their faces blush with shame, O Yahweh,
    so that they must look to you for help.
17 Let them be put to shame and terrified forever.
    Let them die in disgrace
18 so that they must acknowledge you.
    Your name is Yahweh.
        You alone are Elyon of the whole earth.

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 83:13 Or “whirling dust.”
  2. Psalm 83:15 Verse 15 (in Hebrew) has been placed in front of verse 14 to express the complex Hebrew sentence structure more clearly in English.

Prayer to Frustrate Conspiracy Against Israel

A Song. A Psalm of Asaph.

83 Do(A) not keep silent, O God!
Do not hold Your peace,
And do not be still, O God!
For behold, (B)Your enemies make a [a]tumult;
And those who hate You have [b]lifted up their head.
They have taken crafty counsel against Your people,
And consulted together (C)against Your sheltered ones.
They have said, “Come, and (D)let us cut them off from being a nation,
That the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”

For they have consulted together with one [c]consent;
They [d]form a confederacy against You:
(E)The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites;
Moab and the Hagrites;
Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek;
Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
Assyria also has joined with them;
They have helped the children of Lot. Selah

Deal with them as with (F)Midian,
As with (G)Sisera,
As with Jabin at the Brook Kishon,
10 Who perished at En Dor,
(H)Who became as refuse on the earth.
11 Make their nobles like (I)Oreb and like Zeeb,
Yes, all their princes like (J)Zebah and Zalmunna,
12 Who said, “Let us take for ourselves
The pastures of God for a possession.”

13 (K)O my God, make them like the whirling dust,
(L)Like the chaff before the wind!
14 As the fire burns the woods,
And as the flame (M)sets the mountains on fire,
15 So pursue them with Your tempest,
And frighten them with Your storm.
16 Fill their faces with shame,
That they may seek Your name, O Lord.
17 Let them be [e]confounded and dismayed forever;
Yes, let them be put to shame and perish,
18 (N)That they may know that You, whose (O)name alone is the Lord,
Are (P)the Most High over all the earth.

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 83:2 uproar
  2. Psalm 83:2 Exalted themselves
  3. Psalm 83:5 Lit. heart
  4. Psalm 83:5 Lit. cut a covenant
  5. Psalm 83:17 ashamed