Psalm 83

Common English Bible

Psalm 83

A song. A psalm of Asaph.

83 God, don’t be silent!
    Don’t be quiet or sit still, God,
²    because—look!—your enemies are growling;
    those who hate you are acting arrogantly.
³They concoct crafty plans against your own people;
    they plot against the people you favor.
⁴“Come on,” they say, “let’s wipe them out as a nation!
    Let the name Israel be remembered no more!”
⁵They plot with a single-minded heart;
    they make a covenant against you.
⁶They are the clans of Edom and the Ishmaelites,
    Moab and the Hagrites,
⁷    Gebal, Ammon, Amalek,
    Philistia along with the citizens of Tyre.
⁸Assyria too has joined them—
    they are the strong arm for Lot’s children. Selah

⁹Do to them what you did to Midian,
    to Sisera, and to Jabin at the Kishon River.
¹⁰They were destroyed at Endor;
    they became fertilizer for the ground.
¹¹Make their officials like Oreb and Zeeb,
    all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna—
¹²    those who said, “Let’s take God’s pastures for ourselves.”
¹³My God, make them like tumbleweeds,
    like chaff blown by wind.
¹⁴Just like a fire consumes a forest,
    just like flames set mountains ablaze,
¹⁵        pursue them with your storm,
        terrify them with your hurricane.
¹⁶Cover their faces with shame, Lord, so that they might seek your name.
¹⁷Let them be shamed and terrified forever.
    Let them die in disgrace.
¹⁸    Let them know that you—
        your name is the Lord!—
    you alone are Most High over all the earth.