Chapter 83

  A Song. A Psalm. Of Asaph.
O God, do not keep quiet: let your lips be open and take no rest, O God.  

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  For see! those who make war on you are out of control; your haters are lifting up their heads.  

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  They have made wise designs against your people, talking together against those whom you keep in a secret place.  

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  They have said, Come, let us put an end to them as a nation; so that the name of Israel may go out of man's memory.  

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  For they have all come to an agreement; they are all joined together against you:  

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  The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab and the Hagarites;  

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  Gebal and Ammon and Amalek; the Philistines and the people of Tyre;  

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  Assur is joined with them; they have become the support of the children of Lot. (Selah.)  

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  Do to them what you did to the Midianites; what you did to Sisera and Jabin, at the stream of Kishon:  

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  Who came to destruction at En-dor; their bodies became dust and waste.  

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  Make their chiefs like Oreb and Zeeb; and all their rulers like Zebah and Zalmunna:  

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  Who have said, Let us take for our heritage the resting-place of God.  

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  O my God, make them like the rolling dust; like dry stems before the wind.  

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  As fire burning a wood, and as a flame causing fire on the mountains,  

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  So go after them with your strong wind, and let them be full of fear because of your storm.  

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  Let their faces be full of shame; so that they may give honour to your name, O Lord.  

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  Let them be overcome and troubled for ever; let them be put to shame and come to destruction;  

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  So that men may see that you only, whose name is Yahweh, are Most High over all the earth.  

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