Psalms 83 : 1 (NET)
*A song, a psalm of Asaph. O God, do not be silent! Do not ignore us! Do not be inactive, O God!
Psalms 83 : 2 (NET)
For look, your enemies are making a commotion; those who hate you are hostile.
Psalms 83 : 3 (NET)
They carefully plot against your people, and make plans to harm the ones you cherish.
Psalms 83 : 4 (NET)
They say, "Come on, let's annihilate them so they are no longer a nation! Then the name of Israel will be remembered no more."
Psalms 83 : 5 (NET)
Yes, they devise a unified strategy; they form an alliance against you.
Psalms 83 : 6 (NET)
It includes the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites,
Psalms 83 : 7 (NET)
Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia and the inhabitants of Tyre.
Psalms 83 : 8 (NET)
Even Assyria has allied with them, lending its strength to the descendants of Lot. (Selah)
Psalms 83 : 9 (NET)
Do to them as you did to Midian� as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River!
Psalms 83 : 10 (NET)
They were destroyed at Endor; their corpses were like manure on the ground.
Psalms 83 : 11 (NET)
Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, and all their rulers like Zebah and Zalmunna,
Psalms 83 : 12 (NET)
who said, "Let's take over the pastures of God!"
Psalms 83 : 13 (NET)
O my God, make them like dead thistles, like dead weeds blown away by the wind!
Psalms 83 : 14 (NET)
Like the fire that burns down the forest, or the flames that consume the mountainsides,
Psalms 83 : 15 (NET)
chase them with your gale winds, and terrify them with your windstorm.
Psalms 83 : 16 (NET)
Cover their faces with shame, so they might seek you, O LORD.
Psalms 83 : 17 (NET)
May they be humiliated and continually terrified! May they die in shame!
Psalms 83 : 18 (NET)
Then they will know that you alone are the LORD, the sovereign king over all the earth.
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