Psalms 83 : 1 (NCV)
God, do not keep quiet; God, do not be silent or still.
Psalms 83 : 2 (NCV)
Your enemies are making noises; those who hate you are getting ready to attack.
Psalms 83 : 3 (NCV)
They are making secret plans against your people; they plot against those you love.
Psalms 83 : 4 (NCV)
They say, "Come, let's destroy them as a nation. Then no one will ever remember the name 'Israel.'"
Psalms 83 : 5 (NCV)
They are united in their plan. These have made an agreement against you:
Psalms 83 : 6 (NCV)
the families of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites,
Psalms 83 : 7 (NCV)
the people of Byblos, Ammon, Amalek, Philistia, and Tyre.
Psalms 83 : 8 (NCV)
Even Assyria has joined them to help Ammon and Moab, the descendants of Lot.Selah
Psalms 83 : 9 (NCV)
God, do to them what you did to Midian, what you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River.
Psalms 83 : 10 (NCV)
They died at Endor, and their bodies rotted on the ground.
Psalms 83 : 11 (NCV)
Do to their important leaders what you did to Oreb and Zeeb. Do to their princes what you did to Zebah and Zalmunna.
Psalms 83 : 12 (NCV)
They said, "Let's take for ourselves the pasturelands that belong to God."
Psalms 83 : 13 (NCV)
My God, make them like tumbleweed, like chaff blown away by the wind.
Psalms 83 : 14 (NCV)
Be like a fire that burns a forest or like flames that blaze through the hills.
Psalms 83 : 15 (NCV)
Chase them with your storm, and frighten them with your wind.
Psalms 83 : 16 (NCV)
Cover them with shame. Then people will look for you, Lord.
Psalms 83 : 17 (NCV)
Make them afraid and ashamed forever. Disgrace them and destroy them.
Psalms 83 : 18 (NCV)
Then they will know that you are the Lord, that only you are God Most High over all the earth.
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