Psalms 83 : 1 (ERVEN)
One of Asaph's songs of praise. God, don't keep quiet! Don't close your ears! Please say something, God.
Psalms 83 : 2 (ERVEN)
Your enemies are getting ready to do something. Those who hate you will soon attack.
Psalms 83 : 3 (ERVEN)
They are making secret plans against your people. Your enemies are discussing plans against the people you love.
Psalms 83 : 4 (ERVEN)
They say, "Come, let us destroy them completely. Then no one will ever again remember the name Israel. "
Psalms 83 : 5 (ERVEN)
God, they have all joined together. They have united against you.
Psalms 83 : 6 (ERVEN)
Their army includes the Edomites, Ishmaelites, Moabites, and Hagar's descendants, the people of Byblos, Ammon, and Amalek, the Philistines, and the people of Tyre.
Psalms 83 : 8 (ERVEN)
Even the Assyrians have joined them. They have made Lot's descendants very powerful. Selah
Psalms 83 : 9 (ERVEN)
God, defeat them just as you defeated Midian. Do what you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River.
Psalms 83 : 10 (ERVEN)
You destroyed the enemy at Endor, and their bodies rotted on the ground.
Psalms 83 : 11 (ERVEN)
Punish their leaders as you did Oreb and Zeeb. Do what you did to Zebah and Zalmunna.
Psalms 83 : 12 (ERVEN)
They said, "Let's make this land our own� these fields of grass that belong to God!"
Psalms 83 : 13 (ERVEN)
Make them like tumbleweeds blown by the wind. Scatter them, like the wind scatters straw.
Psalms 83 : 14 (ERVEN)
Be like a fire that destroys a forest or like a flame that sets the hills on fire.
Psalms 83 : 15 (ERVEN)
Chase them away with your blasts of wind; frighten them with your storms.
Psalms 83 : 16 (ERVEN)
Lord, cover them with shame until they come to you for help.
Psalms 83 : 17 (ERVEN)
May they be forever ashamed and afraid. Disgrace and defeat them.
Psalms 83 : 18 (ERVEN)
Then they will know that your name is Yahweh � that you alone are the Lord. They will know that you are God Most High, ruler over all the earth!
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