Psalms 83 The nations gather against Israel, and the prophet pleads with God to deliver them

Psalms 83

The nations gather against Israel, and the prophet pleads with God to deliver them

1 O God, do not keep silent; do not close your ear or stand still, O God.

2 For, behold, your enemies are in an uproar, and those who hate you have lifted up their heads.

3 They have taken cunning counsel against your people, and have conspired against those you have protected.

4 They have said, "Come, let us cut them off from being a nation, that the name of Israel may no longer be remembered."

5 For they have conspired together; they have joined together against you:

6 The tents of Edom, and the Ishmaelites, Moab, and the Hagarites,

7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek, and Philistia, with the inhabitants of Tyre.

8 Assyria also joined with them; they were the arm of the children of Lot. 

9 Do to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin at the brook of Kishon; 

10 who were destroyed at Endor; they became dung for the land. 

11 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, and all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna; 

12 who said, "Let us take for ourselves the famous dwellings of God as an inheritance."

 13 My God, make them like a whirlwind, like chaff before the wind. 

14 Like fire that burns the forest, and like a flame that sets the mountains ablaze; 

15 so pursue them with your tempest, and terrify them with your whirlwind. 

16 Let their faces be filled with shame, that they may seek one another and perish.

17 Let them be confounded and dismayed forever; let them be ashamed and perish.

18 That they may know that you, whose name alone is the LORD, are the Most High over all the earth.