Psalms 83

World English Bible

JPS Tanakh (Jewish Publication Society, 1917)

1God, don’t keep silent. Don’t keep silent, and don’t be still, God.

1(83-1) A Song, a Psalm of Asaph. (83-2) O God, keep not Thou silence; hold not Thy peace, and be not still, O God.

2For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.

2(83-3) For, lo, Thine enemies are in an uproar; and they that hate Thee have lifted up the head.

3They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones.

3(83-4) They hold crafty converse against Thy people, and take counsel against Thy treasured ones.

4“Come,” they say, “let’s destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”

4(83-5) They have said: 'Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.'

5For they have conspired together with one mind. They form an alliance against you.

5(83-6) For they have consulted together with one consent; against Thee do they make a covenant;

6The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagrites;

6(83-7) The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagrites;

7Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;

7(83-8) Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;

8Assyria also is joined with them. They have helped the children of Lot. Selah.

8(83-9) Assyria also is joined with them; they have been an arm to the children of Lot. Selah

9Do to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon;

9(83-10) Do Thou unto them as unto Midian; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook Kishon;

10who perished at Endor, who became as dung for the earth.

10(83-11) Who were destroyed at En-dor; they became as dung for the earth.

11Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,

11(83-12) Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, and like Zebah and Zalmunna all their princes;

12who said, “Let’s take possession of God’s pasture lands.”

12(83-13) Who said: 'Let us take to ourselves in possession the habitations of God.'

13My God, make them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind.

13(83-14) O my God, make them like the whirling dust; as stubble before the wind.

14As the fire that burns the forest, as the flame that sets the mountains on fire,

14(83-15) As the fire that burneth the forest, and as the flame that setteth the mountains ablaze;

15so pursue them with your tempest, and terrify them with your storm.

15(83-16) So pursue them with Thy tempest, and affright them with Thy storm.

16Fill their faces with confusion, that they may seek your name, LORD.

16(83-17) Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek Thy name, O LORD.

17Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish;

17(83-18) Let them be ashamed and affrighted for ever; yea, let them be abashed and perish;

18that they may know that you alone, whose name is the LORD, are the Most High over all the earth.

18(83-19) That they may know that it is Thou alone whose name is the LORD, the Most High over all the earth.

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