Chapter 83

  God, don't keep silent. Don't keep silent, and don't be still, God.  

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  For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.  

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  They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones.  

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  'Come,' they say, 'and let us destroy them as a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more.'  

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  For they have conspired together with one mind. They form an alliance against you.  

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

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  Gebal, 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 to them as you did to 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; Yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna;  

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  Who said, 'Let us take possession Of God's pasturelands.'  

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  My God, make them like tumbleweed; Like chaff before the wind.  

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  As the fire that burns the forest, As the flame that sets the mountains on fire,  

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  So pursue them with your tempest, Terrify them with your storm.  

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  Fill their faces with confusion, That they may seek your name, Yahweh.  

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  Let them be put to shame and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish;  

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  That they may know that you alone, whose name is Yahweh, Are the Most High over all the earth. Psalm 84 For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.  

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