Psalm 83

¹God, don’t be silent!

Don’t be quiet or sit still, God,

²because—look!—your enemies are growling;

those who hate you are acting arrogantly.

³They concoct crafty plans against your own people;

they plot against the people you favor.

⁴“Come on,” they say, “let’s wipe them out as a nation!

Let the name Israel be remembered no more!”

⁵They plot with a single-minded heart;

they make a covenant against you.

⁶They are the clans of Edom and the Ishmaelites,

Moab and the Hagrites,

⁷Gebal, Ammon, Amalek,

Philistia along with the citizens of Tyre.

⁸Assyria too has joined them—

they are the strong arm for Lot’s children. Selah

⁹Do to them what you did to Midian,

to Sisera, and to Jabin at the Kishon River.

¹⁰They were destroyed at Endor;

they became fertilizer for the ground.

¹¹Make their officials like Oreb and Zeeb,

all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna—

¹²those who said, “Let’s take God’s pastures for ourselves.”

¹³My God, make them like tumbleweeds,

like chaff blown by wind.

¹⁴Just like a fire consumes a forest,

just like flames set mountains ablaze,

¹⁶Cover their faces with shame, LORD , so that they might seek your name.

¹⁷Let them be shamed and terrified forever.

Let them die in disgrace.

¹⁸Let them know that you—

you alone are Most High over all the earth.