Psalms 83 : 1 (NLT)
O God, do not be silent! Do not be deaf. Do not be quiet, O God.
Psalms 83 : 2 (NLT)
Don't you hear the uproar of your enemies? Don't you see that your arrogant enemies are rising up?
Psalms 83 : 3 (NLT)
They devise crafty schemes against your people; they conspire against your precious ones.
Psalms 83 : 4 (NLT)
"Come," they say, "let us wipe out Israel as a nation. We will destroy the very memory of its existence."
Psalms 83 : 5 (NLT)
Yes, this was their unanimous decision. They signed a treaty as allies against you--
Psalms 83 : 6 (NLT)
these Edomites and Ishmaelites; Moabites and Hagrites;
Psalms 83 : 7 (NLT)
Gebalites, Ammonites, and Amalekites; and people from Philistia and Tyre.
Psalms 83 : 8 (NLT)
Assyria has joined them, too, and is allied with the descendants of Lot. Interlude
Psalms 83 : 9 (NLT)
Do to them as you did to the Midianites and as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River.
Psalms 83 : 10 (NLT)
They were destroyed at Endor, and their decaying corpses fertilized the soil.
Psalms 83 : 11 (NLT)
Let their mighty nobles die as Oreb and Zeeb did. Let all their princes die like Zebah and Zalmunna,
Psalms 83 : 12 (NLT)
for they said, "Let us seize for our own use these pasturelands of God!"
Psalms 83 : 13 (NLT)
O my God, scatter them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind!
Psalms 83 : 14 (NLT)
As a fire burns a forest and as a flame sets mountains ablaze,
Psalms 83 : 15 (NLT)
chase them with your fierce storm; terrify them with your tempest.
Psalms 83 : 16 (NLT)
Utterly disgrace them until they submit to your name, O LORD.
Psalms 83 : 17 (NLT)
Let them be ashamed and terrified forever. Let them die in disgrace.
Psalms 83 : 18 (NLT)
Then they will learn that you alone are called the LORD, that you alone are the Most High, supreme over all the earth. For the choir director: A psalm of the descendants of Korah, to be accompanied by a stringed instrument.
❮
❯