God, be not silent, nor sit still!
Stir up your might for Israel.
For, look, your foes prepare for fighting;
they raise their heads, for war uniting.
The flames of hatred they keep fanning,
your chosen people’s downfall planning.

Vers 2

They say, “Come, let us wipe them out;
let Israel be put to rout.
Let all their nation be defeated,
its name from memory deleted.”
They are with one accord conspiring,
the fall of Israel desiring.

Vers 3

Look, Edom and the Ishmaelites,
the Hagarenes and Moabites,
with the Philistines and the Tyrians
join Ammon’s tribe and the Assyrians;
Gebal combines with Agag’s remnants.
They give support to Lot’s descendants.

Vers 4

Treat them as you did Midian;
as Sisera, that warrior slain
when in a woman’s tent he sheltered;
as those who at the Kishon faltered –
all Jabin’s men, who, stripped of splendour,
were dung left on the fields of Endor.

Vers 5

Like Oreb and like Zeëb, LORD,
let foes receive their due reward;
like Zebah and Zalmunnah, humbled
when to their downfall they both stumbled –
those who had said, “God’s own green pastures
we will possess as lords and masters.”

Vers 6

O God, make them like whirling dust,
like chaff before a windy gust.
As fire consumes the woods like tinder
and turns the hills to ash and cinder,
so with your storms, O God, subdue them;
with frightful hurricanes pursue them.

Vers 7

LORD, on their heads heap such great shame
that they will all confess your name.
May they be crushed and doomed forever;
in their disgrace let them discover
that you are LORD, uniquely glorious,
that you are everywhere victorious.

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Psalm 83

Vers 1