Psalm 83

¹ O God, do not thou silence keep:

O do not thou refrain

thyself from speaking, and, O God,

do not thou dumb remain.

² For lo, thine enemies that be

do rage tumultuously:

and they that haters be of thee

have lift the head on high.

³ Against those that thy people be

they crafty counsel take;

also against thy hidden ones

they consultation make.

⁴ They said, lest they a nation be,

let’s cut them down therefore,

that in remembrance Isr’el’s name

may not be any more.

⁵ For they together taken have

counsel with one consent,

and in confederation

against thee they are bent.

⁶ The tabernacles of Edom

and of the Ishma’lites:

the people of the Hagarenes

and of the Moabites.

⁷ The men of Gebal, with Ammon,

and Amalek conspire,

the Philistines, with them that be

inhabitants of Tyre.

⁸ Assyria moreover is

conjoined unto them:

and help they have administer’d

unto Lot’s childeren. Selah.

⁹ As thou didst to the Midianites,

so to them be it done:

as unto Sis’ra and Jabin

at the brook of Kison:

¹⁰ Who near to Endor suddenly

were quite discomfited:

who also did become as dung

that on the earth is spread.

¹¹ Like unto Oreb, and like Zeeb

make thou their nobles fall,

yea, as Zebah and Zalmunna

make thou their princes all.

¹² Who said, for our possession

God’s houses let us take.

¹³ My God, thou like a wheel, like straw

before the wind them make.

¹⁴ As fire doth burn a wood, and as

the flame sets hills on fire;

¹⁵ So with thy tempest them pursue,

and fright them in thine ire.

¹⁶ Do thou their faces all fill full

of ignomin’ous shame:

that so they may, O Lord, be made

to seek after thy name.

¹⁷ Confounded let them ever be,

and terribly troubl’d:

yea, let them be put unto shame,

and be extinguished.

¹⁸ That men may know; that thou whose name

Jehovah is only,

art over all the earth throughout

advanced the most high.