God Implored to Confound His Enemies.

¹Do not keep silent, O God;

Do not hold Your peace or be still, O God.

²For behold, Your enemies are in tumult,

And those who hate You have raised their heads [in hatred of You]. [Acts 4:25, 26]

³They concoct crafty schemes against Your people,

And conspire together against Your hidden and precious ones.

⁴They have said, “Come, and let us wipe them out as a nation;

Let the name of Israel be remembered no more.”

⁵For they have conspired together with one mind;

Against You they make a covenant—

⁶The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,

Of Moab and the Hagrites,

⁷Gebal and Ammon and Amalek,

Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre.

⁸Assyria also has joined with them;

They have helped the children of Lot [the Ammonites and the Moabites] and have been an arm [of strength] to them. Selah.

⁹¶Deal with them as [You did] with Midian,

As with Sisera and Jabin at the brook of Kishon, [Judg 4:12-24]

¹⁰Who were destroyed at En-dor,

Who became like dung for the earth.

¹¹Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb

And all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna, [Judg 7:23-25; 8:10-21]

¹²Who said, “Let us possess for ourselves

The pastures of God.”

¹³¶O my God, make them like whirling dust,[#83:13 Or tumbleweed .]

Like chaff before the wind [worthless and without substance].

¹⁴Like fire consumes the forest,

And like the flame sets the mountains on fire,

¹⁵So pursue them with Your tempest

And terrify them with [the violence of] Your storm.

¹⁶Fill their faces with shame and disgrace,

That they may [persistently] seek Your name, O Lord .

¹⁷Let them be ashamed and dismayed forever;

Yes, let them be humiliated and perish,

¹⁸That they may know that You alone, whose name is the Lord ,

Are the Most High over all the earth.