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84">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Contemporary English Version</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="d">(A song and a psalm by Asaph.)</h3><h3 class="s1">God Rules All the Earth</h3><p class="q1"><span class="v19_83_1"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.83.1" class="v19_83_1">1</span>Our God, don't just sit there,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_83_1">silently doing nothing!</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_83_2"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.83.2" class="v19_83_2">2</span>Your hateful enemies</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_83_2">are turning against you</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_83_2">and rebelling.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_83_3"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.83.3" class="v19_83_3">3</span>They are sly, and they plot</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_83_3">against those you treasure.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_83_4"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.83.4" class="v19_83_4">4</span>They say, “Let's wipe out</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_83_4">the nation of Israel</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_83_4">and make sure that no one</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_83_4">remembers its name!”</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_83_5"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.83.5" class="v19_83_5">5</span>All of them fully agree</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_83_5">in their plans against you,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_83_5">and among them are</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_83_6"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.83.6" class="v19_83_6">6</span>Edom and the Ishmaelites;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_83_6">Moab and the Hagrites;</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_83_7"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.83.7" class="v19_83_7">7</span>Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_83_7">Philistia and Phoenicia.<a href="#fn" id="link_Ps.83.7!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_83_8"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.83.8" class="v19_83_8">8</span>Even Assyria has joined forces</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_83_8">with Moab and Ammon.<a href="#fn" id="link_Ps.83.8!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_83_9"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.83.9" class="v19_83_9">9</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Ps.83.9!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Our Lord, punish all of them</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_83_9">as you punished Midian.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_83_9">Destroy them, as you destroyed</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_83_9">Sisera and Jabin</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_83_9">at Kishon Creek </span><span class="v19_83_10"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.83.10" class="v19_83_10">10</span>near Endor,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_83_10">and let their bodies rot.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_83_11"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.83.11" class="v19_83_11">11</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Ps.83.11!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> Treat their leaders as you did</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_83_11">Oreb and Zeeb,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_83_11">Zebah and Zalmunna.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_83_12"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.83.12" class="v19_83_12">12</span>All of them said, “We'll take</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_83_12">God's valuable land!”</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_83_13"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.83.13" class="v19_83_13">13</span>Our God, scatter them around</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_83_13">like dust in a whirlwind.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_83_14"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.83.14" class="v19_83_14">14</span>Just as flames destroy forests</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_83_14">on the mountains,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_83_15"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.83.15" class="v19_83_15">15</span>pursue and terrify them</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_83_15">with storms of your own.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_83_16"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.83.16" class="v19_83_16">16</span>Make them blush with shame,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_83_16">until they turn and worship</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_83_16">you, our <span class="nd">Lord</span>.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_83_17"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.83.17" class="v19_83_17">17</span>Let them be forever ashamed</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_83_17">and confused.</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_83_17">Let them die in disgrace.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_83_18"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.83.18" class="v19_83_18">18</span>Make them realize that you</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_83_18">are the <span class="nd">Lord</span> Most High,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_83_18">the only ruler of earth!</span></p> <a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">83.7 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Phoenicia: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The Hebrew text has “Tyre,” the main city in Phoenicia.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">83.8 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Moab and Ammon: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The Hebrew text has “the descendants of Lot,” whose older daughter was the mother of the Moabites and whose younger daughter was the mother of the Ammonites (see Genesis 19.30-38).</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span 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