Prayer against Enemies

¹God, do not keep silent.

Do not be deaf, God; do not be quiet.

²See how your enemies make an uproar;

those who hate you have acted arrogantly. ,

³They devise clever schemes against your people;

they conspire against your treasured ones.

⁴They say, ‘Come, let’s wipe them out as a nation

so that Israel’s name will no longer be remembered.’

⁵For they have conspired with one mind;

they form an alliance against you –

⁶the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,[#83:6 Gn 25:12–16; Ps 137:7]

Moab and the Hagrites,

⁷Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek,[#83:7 Jos 13:5; 1Sm 15:2]

Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre.

⁸Even Assyria has joined them;

they lend support to the sons of Lot. , Selah

⁹Deal with them as you did with Midian,[#83:9 Nm 31:7; Jdg 7:1–24]

as you did with Sisera

and Jabin at the River Kishon.

¹⁰They were destroyed at En-dor;

they became manure for the ground.

¹¹Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb,[#83:11 Jdg 7:25; 8:3]

and all their tribal leaders like Zebah and Zalmunna,

¹²who said, ‘Let’s seize God’s pastures for ourselves.’[#83:12 2Ch 20:11]

¹³Make them like tumbleweed, my God,

like straw before the wind.

¹⁴As fire burns a forest,

as a flame blazes through mountains,

¹⁵so pursue them with your tempest

and terrify them with your storm.

¹⁶Cover their faces with shame

so that they will seek your name, Lord .

¹⁷Let them be put to shame and terrified for ever;

let them perish in disgrace.

¹⁸May they know that you alone –

whose name is the Lord –

are the Most High over the whole earth.