Psalms 82 — BST

82A Song of a Psalm for Asaph.²O God, who shall be compared to thee? be not silent, neither be still, O God.³For behold, thine enemies have made a noise; and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.⁴Against thy people they have craftily imagined a device, and have taken counsel against thy saints.⁵They have said, Come, and let us utterly destroy them out of the nation; and let the name of Israel be remembered no more at all.⁶For they have taken counsel together with one consent: they have made a confederacy against thee;⁷even the tents of the Idumeans, and the Ismaelites; Moab, and the Agarenes;⁸Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalec; the Philistines also, with them that dwell at Tyre.⁹Yea, Assur too is come with them: they have become a help to the children of Lot. Pause.¹⁰Do thou to them as to Madiam, and to Sisera; as to Jabin at the brook of Kison.¹¹They were utterly destroyed at Aendor: they became as dung for the earth.¹²Make their princes as Oreb and Zeb, and Zebee and Salmana; even all their princes:¹³who said, Let us take to ourselves the⁺altar of God as an inheritance.¹⁴O my God, make them as a wheel; as stubble before the face of the wind.¹⁵As fire which shall burn up a wood, as the flame may consume the mountains;¹⁶so shalt thou persecute them with thy tempest, and trouble them in thine anger.¹⁷Fill their faces with dishonour; so shall they seek thy name, O Lord.¹⁸Let them be ashamed and troubled for evermore; yea, let them be confounded and destroyed.¹⁹And let them know that thy name is Lord; that thou alone art Most High over all the earth.