Psalm 83

Revised Geneva Translation

83 Do not keep silent, O God. Do not be still, and do not cease, O God.

² For lo, Your enemies murmur and those who hate You have lifted up the head.

³ They have taken crafty counsel against Your people and have consulted against Your treasured ones.

⁴ They have said, “Come and let us cut them off from being a nation. And let the name of Israel be in remembrance no more.”

⁵ For they have consulted together in heart and have made a league against You:

⁶ the tabernacles of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagarites,

⁷ Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre.

⁸ Assyria has also joined with them. They have been an arm to the children of Lot. Selah.

⁹ Do to them as to the Midianites, as to Sisera and as to Jabin at the river of Kishon.

¹⁰ They perished at En Dor and were dung for the Earth.

¹¹ Make them—even their princes like Oreb and like Zeeb (indeed, all their princes like Zebah and like Zalmunna

¹² who have said, “Let us take for our possession the habitations of God)—

¹³ O, my God, make them like a wheel and as the stubble before the wind.

¹⁴ As the fire burns the forest, and as the flame sets the mountains on fire,

¹⁵ so persecute them with Your tempest and make them afraid with Your storm.

¹⁶ Fill their faces with shame, so that they may seek Your Name, O LORD.

¹⁷ Let them be confounded and troubled forever. Indeed, let them be put to shame and perish,

¹⁸ so that they may know that You, Who are called JEHOVAH, are alone, the Most High over all the Earth. To him who excels upon Gittith: A Psalm committed to the sons of Korah