Psalms 83

1[A Song {or} Psalm of Asaph.] Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God. {of Asaph: or, for Asaph}● 2For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.● 3They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.● 4They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from {being} a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.● 5For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee: {consent: Heb. heart}● 6The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;● 7Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;● 8Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah. {holpen: Heb. been an arm to}● 9Do unto them as {unto} the Midianites; as {to} Sisera, as {to} Jabin, at the brook of Kison:● 10{Which} perished at Endor: they became {as} dung for the earth.● 11Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:● 12Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.● 13O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.● 14As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;● 15So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.● 16Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.● 17Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:● 18That {men} may know that thou, whose name alone {is} JEHOVAH, {art} the most high over all the earth.●