Psalms 83 — FBV

A song. A psalm of Asaph.

83Verse 1God, please do not stay silent! You can't remain unmoved! God, you must not keep quiet!
^{Verse 2}Can't you hear the roars of your enemies? Can't you see how those who hate you are defiantly lifting up their heads?
^{Verse 3}They invent cunning plans to conspire against your people; they plot against those you treasure.
^{Verse 4}They say, “Come on! Let's destroy them as a nation so the name ‘Israel’ will be completely forgotten.”
^{Verse 5}They all agree in their conspiracy; they've made a treaty together to attack you—
^{Verse 6}the people of Edom, the Ishmaelites, Moab, and the Hagirites;
^{Verse 7}the people of Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, Philistia, and the inhabitants of Tyre.
^{Verse 8}Assyria too has joined them, allied with the descendants of Lot. Selah.
^{Verse 9}Do to them what you did to Midian, what you did to Sisera and Jabin⁺at the Kishon River.
^{Verse 10}They were destroyed at Endor and became like manure to fertilize the ground.
^{Verse 11}Make their leaders like Oreb and Zeeb; all their rulers like Zebah and Zalmunna,^{+
Verse 12}for they said, “Let's take the pastures of God for ourselves!”
^{Verse 13}My God, make them like whirling tumbleweeds, chaff blown away by the wind.
^{Verse 14}Just like fire that burns the forest, a flame that sets fire to the mountains,
^{Verse 15}in the same way chase them down with your storm, terrify them with your whirlwind.
^{Verse 16}Shame them in defeat⁺so that they come to you, Lord!
^{Verse 17}Make them ashamed, terrify them forever so that they die in disgrace.
^{Verse 18}Let them understand that you alone, called the Lord, are the Most High who rules over all the earth.