83:1 O God, do not be silent!
Do not ignore us!1 Do not be inactive, O God!
83:2 For look, your enemies are making a commotion;
those who hate you are hostile.2
83:3 They carefully plot3 against your people,
and make plans to harm4 the ones you cherish.5
83:4 They say, “Come on, let’s annihilate them so they are no longer a nation!6
Then the name of Israel will be remembered no more.”
83:5 Yes,7 they devise a unified strategy;8
they form an alliance9 against you.
83:6 It includes10 the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,
Moab and the Hagrites,11
83:7 Gebal,12 Ammon, and Amalek,
Philistia and the inhabitants of Tyre.13
83:8 Even Assyria has allied with them,
lending its strength to the descendants of Lot.14 (Selah)
83:9 Do to them as you did to Midian15—
as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River!16
83:10 They were destroyed at Endor;17
their corpses were like manure18 on the ground.
83:11 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb,19
and all their rulers like Zebah and Zalmunna,20
83:12 who said,21 “Let’s take over22 the pastures of God!”
83:13 O my God, make them like dead thistles,23
like dead weeds blown away by24 the wind!
83:14 Like the fire that burns down the forest,
or the flames that consume the mountainsides,25
83:15 chase them with your gale winds,
and terrify26 them with your windstorm.
83:16 Cover27 their faces with shame,
so they might seek28 you,29 O Lord.
83:17 May they be humiliated and continually terrified!30
May they die in shame!31
83:18 Then they will know32 that you alone are the Lord,33
the sovereign king34 over all the earth.
Psalm 8435
For the music director; according to the gittith style;36 written by the Korahites, a psalm.