Ps 83:1Do not keep silent, O God; Do not hold Your peace or be still, O God.
Ps 83:2For behold, Your enemies are in tumult, And those who hate You have raised their heads [in hatred of You]. [Acts 4:25, 26]
Ps 83:3They concoct crafty schemes against Your people, And conspire together against Your hidden and precious ones.
Ps 83:4They have said, "Come, and let us wipe them out as a nation; Let the name of Israel be remembered no more."
Ps 83:5For they have conspired together with one mind; Against You they make a covenant--
Ps 83:6The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Of Moab and the Hagrites,
Ps 83:7Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre.
Ps 83:8Assyria also has joined with them; They have helped the children of Lot [the Ammonites and the Moabites] and have been an arm [of strength] to them. Selah.
Ps 83:9¶ Deal with them as [You did] with Midian, As with Sisera and Jabin at the brook of Kishon, [Judg 4:12-24]
Ps 83:10Who were destroyed at En-dor, Who became like dung for the earth.
Ps 83:11Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb And all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna, [Judg 7:23-25; 8:10-21]
Ps 83:12Who said, "Let us possess for ourselves The pastures of God."
Ps 83:13¶ O my God, make them like whirling dust, Like chaff before the wind [worthless and without substance].
Ps 83:14Like fire consumes the forest, And like the flame sets the mountains on fire,
Ps 83:15So pursue them with Your tempest And terrify them with [the violence of] Your storm.
Ps 83:16Fill their faces with shame and disgrace, That they may [persistently] seek Your name, O LORD.
Ps 83:17Let them be ashamed and dismayed forever; Yes, let them be humiliated and perish,
Ps 83:18That they may know that You alone, whose name is the LORD, Are the Most High over all the earth. To the Chief Musician; set to a Philistine lute. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.<SS>