Chapter 83

   A song. A Psalm of Asaph. O God, keep not thou silence: Hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.  

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  For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult; And they that hate thee have lifted up the head.  

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  Thy take crafty counsel against thy people, And consult together against thy hidden ones.  

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  They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; That the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.  

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  For they have consulted together with one consent; Against thee do they make a covenant:  

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  The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagarenes;  

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  Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre:  

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  Assyria also is joined with them; They have helped the children of Lot. Selah  

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  Do thou unto them as unto Midian, As to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon;  

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  Who perished at Endor, Who became as dung for the earth.  

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  Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb; Yea, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna;  

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  Who said, Let us take to ourselves in possession The habitations of God.  

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  O my God, make them like the whirling dust; As stubble before the wind.  

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  As the fire that burneth the forest, And as the flame that setteth the mountains on fire,  

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  So pursue them with thy tempest, And terrify them with thy storm.  

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  Fill their faces with confusion, That they may seek thy name, O Jehovah.  

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  Let them be put to shame and dismayed for ever; Yea, let them be confounded and perish;  

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  That they may know that thou alone, whose name is Jehovah, Art the Most High over all the earth.   

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