| Chapter 83 |
1 | A Song. A Psalm. Of Asaph.
O God, do not keep quiet: let your lips be open and take no rest, O God.
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2 | For see! those who make war on you are out of control; your haters are lifting up their heads.
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3 | They have made wise designs against your people, talking together against those whom you keep in a secret place.
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4 | They have said, Come, let us put an end to them as a nation; so that the name of Israel may go out of man's memory.
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5 | For they have all come to an agreement; they are all joined together against you:
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6 | The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab and the Hagarites;
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7 | Gebal and Ammon and Amalek; the Philistines and the people of Tyre;
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8 | Assur is joined with them; they have become the support of the children of Lot. (Selah.)
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9 | Do to them what you did to the Midianites; what you did to Sisera and Jabin, at the stream of Kishon:
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10 | Who came to destruction at En-dor; their bodies became dust and waste.
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11 | Make their chiefs like Oreb and Zeeb; and all their rulers like Zebah and Zalmunna:
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12 | Who have said, Let us take for our heritage the resting-place of God.
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13 | O my God, make them like the rolling dust; like dry stems before the wind.
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14 | As fire burning a wood, and as a flame causing fire on the mountains,
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15 | So go after them with your strong wind, and let them be full of fear because of your storm.
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16 | Let their faces be full of shame; so that they may give honour to your name, O Lord.
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17 | Let them be overcome and troubled for ever; let them be put to shame and come to destruction;
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18 | So that men may see that you only, whose name is Yahweh, are Most High over all the earth.
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