Psalm 83
Against a Hostile Alliance
1 A song. A psalm of Asaph.
2 O God, do not remain silent;
do not be quiet and inactive, O God.
3 Note how your enemies rage about,
how your foes increase in arrogance.
4 They formulate shrewd plans against your people,
conspiring against those you love.
5 They say, “Come, let us wipe them out as a nation;
let the name of Israel be totally forgotten.”
6 They conspire with a single mind,
forming an alliance against you:
7 the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,
Moab and the Hagrites,
8 Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek,
Philistia, and the inhabitants of Tyre;
9 Assyria has also joined them as an ally,
offering aid to the descendants of Lot. Selah
10 Deal with them as you did with Midian,
and with Sisera and Jabin at the brook of Kishon,
11 who were destroyed at Endor
and became manure for the ground.
12 Make their chieftains like Oreb and Zeeb,
and all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
13 who boasted, “Let us seize for ourselves
the pastures of God.”
14 O my God, treat them like tumbleweed,
like chaff blown before the wind.
15 As a fire rages through a forest,
as a flame sets mountains ablaze,
16 so hound them with your tempests
and terrify them with your stormwinds.
17 Fill their faces with shame
so that they will seek your name, O Lord.
18 Let them be humiliated and terrified forever;
let them be disgraced and perish.
19 Let them know that you alone,
whose name is the Lord,
are the Most High over all the earth.
Footnotes
- Psalm 83:1
- Psalm 83:1
- Psalm 83:2
- Psalm 83:3
- Psalm 83:3
- Psalm 83:6
- Psalm 83:7
- Psalm 83:10
- Psalm 83:10
- Psalm 83:10
- Psalm 83:12
- Psalm 83:14
- Psalm 83:16
- Psalm 83:17
- Psalm 83:18
