| Chapter 83 |
1 |
A Song, -- A Psalm of Asaph. O God, let there be no silence to Thee, Be not silent, nor be quiet, O God. |
2 |
For, lo, Thine enemies do roar, And those hating Thee have lifted up the head, |
3 |
Against Thy people they take crafty counsel, And consult against Thy hidden ones. |
4 |
They have said, `Come, And we cut them off from being a nation, And the name of Israel is not remembered any more.` |
5 |
For they consulted in heart together, Against Thee a covenant they make, |
6 |
Tents of Edom, and Ishmaelites, Moab, and the Hagarenes, |
7 |
Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia with inhabitants of Tyre, |
8 |
Asshur also is joined with them, They have been an arm to sons of Lot. Selah. |
9 |
Do to them as to Midian, As to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the stream Kishon. |
10 |
They were destroyed at Endor, They were dung for the ground! |
11 |
Make their nobles as Oreb and as Zeeb, And as Zebah and Zalmunna all their princes, |
12 |
Who have said, `Let us occupy for ourselves The comely places of God.` |
13 |
O my God, make them as a rolling thing, As stubble before wind. |
14 |
As a fire doth burn a forest, And as a flame setteth hills on fire, |
15 |
So dost Thou pursue them with Thy whirlwind, And with Thy hurricane troublest them. |
16 |
Fill their faces with shame, And they seek Thy name, O Jehovah. |
17 |
They are ashamed and troubled for ever, Yea, they are confounded and lost. |
18 |
And they know that Thou -- (Thy name is Jehovah -- by Thyself,) Art the Most High over all the earth! |
