Psa 83 | Lees | STEP | A song or psalm of Assaph.

‏ Psalms 83

A song or psalm of Assaph.

1 2 O God, take no rest for thyself: be not silent and keep not still, O God! 3 For, lo, thy enemies make a tumult, and they that hate thee have lifted up their head. 4 Against thy people they take crafty secret device, and they consult against those whom thou protectest. 5 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; and the name of Israel shall be remembered no more. 6 For they have consulted cordially together; against thee they make a covenant: 7 The tents of Edom, and the Ishmaelites: Moab, and the Hagarenes; 8 Gebal, and ‘Ammon, and ‘Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre; 9 Also Asshur is joined with them; they have become an arm unto the children of Lot. Selah. 10 Do unto them as unto Midian; as to Sissera, as to Jabin, at the brook Kishon: 11 Who were annihilated at ‘En-dor; they became as dung for the ground. 12 Render them, their nobles, like ‘Oreb, and like Zeeb; yea, like Zebach and like Zalmunna’ all their princes; 13 Who said, Let us conquer for ourselves the dwellings of God, 14 O my God, render them like the thistle-down, like stubble before the wind. 15 As the fire burneth up a forest, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire: 16 So pursue them with thy storm, and with thy whirlwind do thou terrify them. 17 Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek thy name, O Lord! 18 Let them be made ashamed and terrified for ever and aye; yea, let them be put to the blush and perish: That they may know that thou, whose name is the Eternal, art by thyself alone, the Most High over all the earth.