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A psalm of Asaph.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/83-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>O God, do not be silent!</p><p class="line2">Do not be deaf.</p><p class="line2">Do not be quiet, O God.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/83-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Don’t you hear the uproar of your enemies?</p><p class="line2">Don’t you see that your arrogant enemies are rising up?</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/83-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>They devise crafty schemes against your people;</p><p class="line2">they conspire against your precious ones.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/83-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“Come,” they say, “let us wipe out Israel as a nation.</p><p class="line2">We will destroy the very memory of its existence.”</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/83-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Yes, this was their unanimous decision.</p><p class="line2">They signed a treaty as allies against you—</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/83-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>these Edomites and Ishmaelites;</p><p class="line2">Moabites and Hagrites;</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/83-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Gebalites, Ammonites, and Amalekites;</p><p class="line2">and people from Philistia and Tyre.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/83-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Assyria has joined them, too,</p><p class="line2">and is allied with the descendants of Lot.</p><p class="lit">Interlude</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/83-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Do to them as you did to the Midianites</p><p class="line2">and as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/83-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>They were destroyed at Endor,</p><p class="line2">and their decaying corpses fertilized the soil.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/83-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Let their mighty nobles die as Oreb and Zeeb did.</p><p class="line2">Let all their princes die like Zebah and Zalmunna,</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/83-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>for they said, “Let us seize for our own use</p><p class="line2">these pasturelands of God!”</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/83-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>O my God, scatter them like tumbleweed,</p><p class="line2">like chaff before the wind!</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/83-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>As a fire burns a forest</p><p class="line2">and as a flame sets mountains ablaze,</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/83-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>chase them with your fierce storm;</p><p class="line2">terrify them with your tempest.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/83-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Utterly disgrace them</p><p class="line2">until they submit to your name, O LORD.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/83-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Let them be ashamed and terrified forever.</p><p class="line2">Let them die in disgrace.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/83-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Then they will learn that you alone are called the LORD,</p><p class="line2">that you alone are the Most High,</p><p class="line2">supreme over all the earth.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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