Psalm 83

A song. A psalm of Asaph. ¹O God, do not be silent! Do not be deaf. Do not be quiet, O God. ² Don’t you hear the uproar of your enemies? Don’t you see that your arrogant enemies are rising up? ³ They devise crafty schemes against your people; they conspire against your precious ones. ⁴ “Come,” they say, “let us wipe out Israel as a nation. We will destroy the very memory of its existence.” ⁵ Yes, this was their unanimous decision. They signed a treaty as allies against you— ⁶ these Edomites and Ishmaelites; Moabites and Hagrites; ⁷ Gebalites, Ammonites, and Amalekites; and people from Philistia and Tyre. ⁸ Assyria has joined them, too, and is allied with the descendants of Lot.Interlude

⁹Do to them as you did to the Midianites and as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River. ¹⁰ They were destroyed at Endor, and their decaying corpses fertilized the soil. ¹¹ Let their mighty nobles die as Oreb and Zeeb did. Let all their princes die like Zebah and Zalmunna, ¹² for they said, “Let us seize for our own use these pasturelands of God!” ¹³ O my God, scatter them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind! ¹⁴ As a fire burns a forest and as a flame sets mountains ablaze, ¹⁵ chase them with your fierce storm; terrify them with your tempest. ¹⁶ Utterly disgrace them until they submit to your name, O LORD. ¹⁷ Let them be ashamed and terrified forever. Let them die in disgrace. ¹⁸ Then they will learn that you alone are called the LORD, that you alone are the Most High, supreme over all the earth.