Psalms 83 · תהילים

A Poem, A Psalm of Asaf.

Do not keep silence, O God: do not hold Thy peace, and be still, O God.

For lo, Thy enemies make a tumult: and they who hate Thee have lifted up the head.

They take crafty counsel against Thy people, and consult against Thy hidden ones.

They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Yisra᾽el may be no more in remembrance.

For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against Thee:

the tents of Edom, and the Yishme᾽elim; of Mo᾽av, and the Hagrim;

Geval, and ῾Ammon, and ῾Amaleq; Peleshet with the inhabitants of Żor;

Ashshur also is joined with them: they are the strong arm of the children of Lot. (Sela.)

Do to them as to Midyan; as to Sisera, as to Yavin, at the wadi of Qishon:

who perished at ῾En-dor: they became like dung on the earth.

Make their nobles like ῾Orev, and like Ze᾽ev: and all their princes like Zevaĥ, and Żalmunna:

who said, Let us seize for our possession the pastures of God.

O my God, make them like the whirling chaff: like the stubble before the wind.

As the fire burns a wood, and as the flame sets the mountains on fire;

so pursue them with thy tempest, and terrify them with thy storm.

Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O Lord.

Let them be confounded and affrighted forever; and let them be put to shame, and perish:

that men may know that thou alone, whose name is the Lord, art the most high over all the earth.