NETtext - Psalms - 83

83:1  A song, a psalm of Asaph.O God, do not be silent! Do not ignore us! Do not be inactive, O God!

83:2  For look, your enemies are making a commotion; those who hate you are hostile.

83:3  They carefully plot against your people, and make plans to harm the ones you cherish.

83:4  They say, "Come on, let's annihilate them so they are no longer a nation! Then the name of Israel will be remembered no more."

83:5  Yes, they devise a unified strategy; they form an alliance against you.

83:6  It includes the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites,

83:7  Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia and the inhabitants of Tyre.

83:8  Even Assyria has allied with them, lending its strength to the descendants of Lot. (Selah)

83:9  Do to them as you did to Midian - as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River!

83:10  They were destroyed at Endor; their corpses were like manure on the ground.

83:11  Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, and all their rulers like Zebah and Zalmunna,

83:12  who said, "Let's take over the pastures of God!"

83:13  O my God, make them like dead thistles, like dead weeds blown away by the wind!

83:14  Like the fire that burns down the forest, or the flames that consume the mountainsides,

83:15  chase them with your gale winds, and terrify them with your windstorm.

83:16  Cover their faces with shame, so they might seek you, O LORD.

83:17  May they be humiliated and continually terrified! May they die in shame!

83:18  Then they will know that you alone are the LORD, the sovereign king over all the earth.