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O God, Do Not Keep Silence

A Song. A Psalm of Asaph.

 O God, do not keep silence;
   do not hold your peace or be still, O God!
² For behold, your enemies make an uproar;
   those who hate you have raised their heads.
³ They lay crafty plans against your people;
   they consult together against your treasured ones.
⁴ They say, “Come, let us wipe them out as a nation;
   let the name of Israel be remembered no more!”
⁵ For they conspire with one accord;
   against you they make a covenant—
⁶ the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,
   Moab and the Hagrites,
⁷ Gebal and Ammon and Amalek,
   Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
⁸ Asshur also has joined them;
   they are the strong arm of the children of Lot. Selah

⁹ Do to them as you did to Midian,
as to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon,
¹⁰ who were destroyed at En-dor,
who became dung for the ground.
¹¹ Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb,
all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
¹² who said, “Let us take possession for ourselves
of the pastures of God.”

¹³ O my God, make them like whirling dust,^[a]
like chaff before the wind.
¹⁴ As fire consumes the forest,
as the flame sets the mountains ablaze,
¹⁵ so may you pursue them with your tempest
and terrify them with your hurricane!
¹⁶ Fill their faces with shame,
that they may seek your name, O Lord.
¹⁷ Let them be put to shame and dismayed forever;
let them perish in disgrace,
¹⁸ that they may know that you alone,
whose name is the Lord,
are the Most High over all the earth.

Footnotes:

1. Psalm 83:13 Or like a tumbleweed

Cross references:

1. Psalm 83:1 : See Ps. 50, title
2. Psalm 83:1 : See Ps. 28:1
3. Psalm 83:2 : [Ps. 2:1]
4. Psalm 83:2 : Judg. 8:28
5. Psalm 83:3 : [Neh. 4:8]
6. Psalm 83:3 : See Ps. 27:5; 31:20
7. Psalm 83:4 : Jer. 48:2; [Ps. 74:8; Esth. 3:6]
8. Psalm 83:6 : Ps. 137:7; See 2 Chr. 20:10
9. Psalm 83:6 : See Gen. 25:12-16
10. Psalm 83:6 : 2 Chr. 20:10
11. Psalm 83:6 : 1 Chr. 5:10
12. Psalm 83:7 : Josh. 13:5
13. Psalm 83:7 : [See ver. 6 above]; 2 Chr. 20:10
14. Psalm 83:7 : 1 Sam. 15:2
15. Psalm 83:7 : 1 Sam. 4:1; [Amos 1:6]
16. Psalm 83:7 : Ezek. 27:3; [Amos 1:9]
17. Psalm 83:8 : 2 Kgs. 15:19
18. Psalm 83:8 : Deut. 2:9, 19
19. Psalm 83:9 : Num. 31:7; See Isa. 9:4
20. Psalm 83:9 : Judg. 4:15, 24
21. Psalm 83:9 : Judg. 4:7; 5:21
22. Psalm 83:10 : Josh. 17:11; 1 Sam. 28:7
23. Psalm 83:10 : See Job 20:7
24. Psalm 83:11 : Judg. 7:25; 8:3
25. Psalm 83:11 : See Judg. 8:5-21
26. Psalm 83:12 : [2 Chr. 20:11]
27. Psalm 83:13 : Isa. 17:13
28. Psalm 83:13 : Job 13:25; 21:18; [Ps. 1:4]
29. Psalm 83:14 : [Isa. 9:18]; See Isa. 10:16-19
30. Psalm 83:14 : Deut. 32:22
31. Psalm 83:15 : Job 9:17
32. Psalm 83:16 : [Ps. 35:4, 26; Job 10:15]
33. Psalm 83:17 : Ps. 35:4
34. Psalm 83:18 : Ps. 59:13
35. Psalm 83:18 : Ex. 6:3
36. Psalm 83:18 : Ps. 9:2; 18:13; 97:9