📖 Psalms 83
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A song, a psalm of Asaph. O God, do not be silent! Do not ignore us! Do not be inactive, O God!
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For look, your enemies are making a commotion; those who hate you are hostile.
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They carefully plot against your people, and make plans to harm the ones you cherish.
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They say,“Come on, let’s annihilate them so they are no longer a nation! Then the name of Israel will be remembered no more.”
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Yes, they devise a unified strategy; they form an alliance against you.
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It includes the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites,
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Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia and the inhabitants of Tyre.
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Even Assyria has allied with them, lending its strength to the descendants of Lot.(Selah)
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Do to them as you did to Midian– as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River!
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They were destroyed at En Dor; their corpses were like manure on the ground.
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Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, and all their rulers like Zebah and Zalmunna,
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who said,“Let’s take over the pastures of God!”
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O my God, make them like dead thistles, like dead weeds blown away by the wind!
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Like the fire that burns down the forest, or the flames that consume the mountainsides,
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chase them with your gale winds, and terrify them with your windstorm.
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Cover their faces with shame, so they might seek you, O LORD.
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May they be humiliated and continually terrified! May they die in shame!
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Then they will know that you alone are the LORD, the Most High over all the earth.