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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Psalm 83 ISV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/psalms/83.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/psalms/83-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ISV</a> > Psalm 83</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../psalms/82.htm" title="Psalm 82">◄</a> Psalm 83 <a href="../psalms/84.htm" title="Psalm 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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">International Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/isv/esv/psalms/83.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="psalmheading">A song. A Psalm of Asaph</p><p class="heading">A Plea for Judgment</p><p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/83-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>God, do not rest!</p> <p class="poetry2">Don’t be silent!</p> <p class="poetry2">Don’t stay inactive, God!</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/83-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>See! Your enemies rage;</p> <p class="poetry2">those who hate you issue threats.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="83:2 Lit. you lift their head">a</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/83-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>They plot against<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="83:3 Lit. they make shrewd secret counsel">b</a></span> your people</p> <p class="poetry2">and conspire against your cherished ones.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/83-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>They say, “Let us go and erase them as a nation</p> <p class="poetry2">so the name of Israel will not be remembered anymore.”</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/83-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Indeed, they shrewdly planned together,</p> <p class="poetry2">forming an alliance against you—</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/83-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>the tents of Edom, the Ishmaelites,</p> <p class="poetry2">Moab, the Hagrites,</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/83-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Gebal, Ammon, Amalek, Philistia,</p> <p class="poetry2">and the inhabitants of Tyre.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/83-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Even Assyria joined them</p> <p class="poetry2">to strengthen the descendants of Lot.</p> <p class="selah">Interlude</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/83-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Deal with them as you did to Midian,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="83:9 Cf. Judg 7:1-24">c</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">Sisera, and Jabin at the Kishon Brook.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="83:9 Cf. Judg 4:7, 15, 21-24">d</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/83-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>They were destroyed at En-dor</p> <p class="poetry2">and became as dung on the ground.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/83-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Punish their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="83:11 Cf. Judg 7:25">e</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">and all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="83:11 Cf. Judg 8:12, 21">f</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/83-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>who said, “Let us possess the pastures of God.”</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/83-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>God, set them up like dried thistles,</p> <p class="poetry2">like straw before the wind.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/83-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Like a fire burning a forest,</p> <p class="poetry2">and a flame setting mountains ablaze.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/83-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Pursue them with your storm and</p> <p class="poetry2">terrify them with your whirlwind.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/83-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Fill their faces with shame</p> <p class="poetry2">until they seek your name, God.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/83-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Let them be humiliated and terrified permanently</p> <p class="poetry2">until they die in shame.<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="83:17 Lit. they are abased and destroyed">g</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/83-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Then they will know that you alone—</p> <p class="poetry2">whose name is LORD—</p> <p class="poetry2">are the Most High over all the earth.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 83:2 Lit. <i>you lift their head</i><br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 83:3 Lit. <i>they make shrewd secret counsel</i><br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 83:9 Cf. Judg 7:1-24<br /><span class="fnb">d</span> 83:9 Cf. Judg 4:7, 15, 21-24<br /><span class="fnb">e</span> 83:11 Cf. Judg 7:25<br /><span class="fnb">f</span> 83:11 Cf. 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