Psalms 83

Psalm 83

Prayer against Enemies

A song. A psalm of Asaph.

¹God, do not keep silent. Do not be deaf, God; do not be quiet.²

³See how your enemies make an uproar; those who hate you have acted arrogantly.⁴

⁵They devise clever schemes against your people; they conspire against your treasured ones.⁶

⁷They say, “Come, let’s wipe them out as a nation so that Israel’s name will no longer be remembered.”⁸

⁹For they have conspired with one mind; they form an alliance against you —¹⁰

¹¹the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites,¹²

¹³Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre.¹⁴

¹⁵Even Assyria has joined them; they lend support to the sons of Lot.Selah¹⁶

¹⁷Deal with them as you did with Midian, as you did with Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River.¹⁸

¹⁹They were destroyed at En-dor; they became manure for the ground.²⁰

²¹Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, and all their tribal leaders like Zebah and Zalmunna,²²

²³who said, “Let’s seize God’s pastures for ourselves.”²⁴

²⁵Make them like tumbleweed, my God, like straw before the wind.²⁶

²⁷As fire burns a forest, as a flame blazes through mountains,²⁸

²⁹so pursue them with your tempest and terrify them with your storm.³⁰

³¹Cover their faces with shame so that they will seek your name, Lord.³²

³³Let them be put to shame and terrified forever; let them perish in disgrace.³⁴

³⁵May they know that you alone — whose name is the Lord — are the Most High over the whole earth.³⁶