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- 1 A song. A Psalm by Asaph. God, don’t keep silent. Don’t keep silent, and don’t be still, God.
- 2 For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.
- 3 They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones.
- 4 “Come,” they say, “let’s destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”
- 5 For they have conspired together with one mind. They form an alliance against you.
- 6 The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagrites;
- 7 Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
- 8 Assyria also is joined with them. They have helped the children of Lot. Selah.
- 9 Do to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon;
- 10 who perished at Endor, who became as dung for the earth.
- 11 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
- 12 who said, “Let’s take possession of God’s pasture lands.”
- 13 My God, make them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind.
- 14 As the fire that burns the forest, as the flame that sets the mountains on fire,
- 15 so pursue them with your tempest, and terrify them with your storm.
- 16 Fill their faces with confusion, that they may seek your name, LORD.
- 17 Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish;
- 18 that they may know that you alone, whose name is the LORD, are the Most High over all the earth.