A Song, a Psalm of Asaph. ¹ O God, do not remain quiet;
Do not be silent and, O God, do not be still. ² For behold, Your enemies make an uproar,
And those who hate You have exalted themselves. ³ They make shrewd plans against Your people,
And conspire together against Your treasured ones. ⁴ They have said, “Come, and let us wipe them out as a nation,
That the name of Israel be remembered no more.” ⁵ For they have conspired together with one mind;
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 Assyria also has joined with them;
They have become a help to the children of Lot. Selah. ⁹ Deal with them as with Midian,
As with Sisera and Jabin at the torrent of Kishon, ¹⁰ Who were destroyed at En-dor,
Who became as dung for the ground. ¹¹ Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb
And all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna, ¹² Who said, “Let us possess for ourselves
The pastures of God.” ¹³ O my God, make them like the whirling dust,
Like chaff before the wind. ¹⁴ Like fire that burns the forest
And like a flame that sets the mountains on fire, ¹⁵ So pursue them with Your tempest
And terrify them with Your storm. ¹⁶ Fill their faces with dishonor,
That they may seek Your name, O LORD. ¹⁷ Let them be ashamed and dismayed forever,
And let them be humiliated and perish, ¹⁸ That they may know that You alone, whose name is the LORD,
Are the Most High over all the earth.