Psalm 83

1God, don’t keep silent. Don’t keep silent, and don’t be still, God. 2Those who hate you have lifted up their heads. For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. 3They plot against your cherished ones. They conspire with cunning against your people. 4that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.” “Come,” they say, “let’s destroy them as a nation, 5They form an alliance against you. For they have conspired together with one mind. 6Moab, and the Hagrites; The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; 7Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre; Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; 8They have helped the children of Lot. Assyria also is joined with them. Selah. 9as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon; Do to them as you did to Midian, 10who became as dung for the earth. who perished at Endor, 11yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna; Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb; 12who said, “Let us take possession of God’s pasture lands.” 13like chaff before the wind. My God, make them like tumbleweed; 14as the flame that sets the mountains on fire, As the fire that burns the forest, 15so pursue them with your tempest, and terrify them with your storm. 16that they may seek your name, Yahweh. Fill their faces with confusion, 17Yes, let them be confounded and perish; Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever. 18are the Most High over all the earth. that they may know that you alone, whose name is Yahweh,