Psalms 83
83
Prayer against Enemies
A song. A psalm of Asaph. # 83:title 1Ch 16:5,7
1God, do not keep silent.
Do not be deaf, God; do not be quiet. # 83:1 Ps 28:1; 39:12; 115:5; 135:16; Is 62:1
2See how your enemies make an uproar;
those who hate you have acted arrogantly. # 83:2 Lit have lifted their head,# 83:2 Ps 2:1; Is 17:12
3They devise clever schemes against your people;
they conspire against your treasured ones. # 83:3 Jb 5:12–13; Ps 37:12; 64:2
4They say, “Come, let’s wipe them out as a nation
so that Israel’s name will no longer be remembered.” # 83:4 Ps 41:5; Jr 11:19
5For they have conspired with one mind;
they form an alliance # 83:5 Lit they cut a covenant against you # 83:5 Ps 2:2 —
6the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, # 83:6 Gn 25:12–16; Ps 137:7
Moab and the Hagrites, # 83:6 1Ch 5:10; 2Ch 20:10
7Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, # 83:7 Jos 13:5; 1Sm 15:2
Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre. # 83:7 1Sm 4:1; Ezk 27:3
8Even Assyria has joined them;
they lend support # 83:8 Lit they are an arm to the sons of Lot. # 83:8 = Moab and Ammon,# 83:8 2Kg 15:19 Selah
9Deal with them as you did with Midian, # 83:9 Nm 31:7; Jdg 7:1–24
as you did with Sisera
and Jabin at the Kishon River. # 83:9 Jdg 4:7; 5:21
10They were destroyed at En-dor;
they became manure for the ground. # 83:10 Jr 9:22; 16:4; 25:33
11Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, # 83:11 Jdg 7:25; 8:3
and all their tribal leaders like Zebah and Zalmunna, # 83:11 Jdg 8:5–21
12who said, “Let’s seize God’s pastures for ourselves.” # 83:12 2Ch 20:11
13Make them like tumbleweed, my God,
like straw before the wind. # 83:13 Jb 21:18; Ps 1:4; Is 17:13
14As fire burns a forest,
as a flame blazes through mountains, # 83:14 Is 9:18; 10:16–19
15so pursue them with your tempest
and terrify them with your storm. # 83:15 Jb 9:17; Ps 58:9
16Cover their faces with shame
so that they will seek your name, Lord. # 83:16 Ps 35:26; 109:29; 132:18
17Let them be put to shame and terrified forever;
let them perish in disgrace. # 83:17 Ps 35:4; 70:2
18May they know that you alone —
whose name is the Lord —
are the Most High over the whole earth. # 83:18 Ps 97:9
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