Psalms 83

1God, don’t keep quiet! Don’t close your ears! Please say something, God.

2Your enemies are getting ready to do something. Those who hate you will soon attack.

3The enemies are making plans against us, and we are your people. The enemies are thinking about what they can do against the people You love.

4The enemies said: Let us kill all of them. They must no longer be a nation, and no one must remember the name of Israel.

5For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:

6Their army includes Edomites, the Ishmaelites,the people of Moab and the Hagrites,

7The people of Gebal, Ammon and Amalek, the Philistines and the people who live in Tyre.

8The people of Assyria are with them too, and they help the children of Lot and make them strong. Paulse and Think

9Please do to them what you did to the Midianites, and what You did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River.

10They died at Endor. Their bodies lay on the ground and rotted.

11Please do to their leaders what You did to Oreb and Zeeb. Cause all of their leaders to die like Zebah and Zalmunna.

12They are the people who said: Let us take the land of the people of God for ourselves.

13O my God, make them like a whirling dust, Like chaff before the wind

14Be like a fire that destroys a forest or like a flame that sets the hills on fire.

15Chase them away with your blasts of wind; frighten them with your storms.

16Lord, cover them with shame until they come to you for help.

17May they be forever ashamed and afraid. Disgrace and defeat them.

18Then they will know that only You are the Lord, GOD and that You are the Most High God over all the earth.