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Psalms 83

¹O God, do not keep silent; do not be still, do not be quiet!

²Look! Your enemies are in revolt, and those who hate you are rebelling.

³They are making secret plans against your people; they are plotting against those you protect.

⁴"Come,"they say, "let us destroy their nation, so that Israel will be forgotten forever."

⁵They agree on their plan and form an alliance against you:

⁶the people of Edom and the Ishmaelites; the people of Moab and the Hagrites;

⁷the people of Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, and of Philistia and Tyre.

⁸Assyria has also joined them as a strong ally of the Ammonites and Moabites, the descendants of Lot.

⁹Do to them what you did to the Midianites, and to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River.

¹⁰You defeated them at Endor, and their bodies rotted on the ground.

¹¹Do to their leaders what you did to Oreb and Zeeb; defeat all their rulers as you did Zebah and Zalmunna,

¹²who said, "We will take for our own the land that belongs to God."

¹³Scatter them like dust, O God, like straw blown away by the wind.

¹⁴As fire burns the forest, as flames set the hills on fire,

¹⁵chase them away with your storm and terrify them with your fierce winds.

¹⁶Cover their faces with shame, O LORD, and make them acknowledge your power.

¹⁷May they be defeated and terrified forever; may they die in complete disgrace.

¹⁸May they know that you alone are the LORD, supreme ruler over all the earth.