SOTD Psalm 83

Psalm 83

O God, Do Not Keep Silence

A Song. A Psalm of Asaph.

¹O God, do not keep silence;
do not hold your peace or be still, O God!
²For behold, your enemies make an uproar;
those who hate you have raised their heads.
³They lay crafty plans against your people;
they consult together against your treasured ones.
⁴They say, “Come, let us wipe them out as a nation;
let the name of Israel be remembered no more!”
⁵For they conspire with one accord;
against you they make a covenant—
⁶the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,
Moab and the Hagrites,
⁷ Gebal and Ammon and Amalek,
Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
⁸ Asshur also has joined them;
they are the strong arm of the children of Lot.
Selah

⁹Do to them as you did to Midian,
as to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon,
¹⁰who were destroyed at En-dor,
who became dung for the ground.
¹¹Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb,
all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
¹²who said, “Let us take possession for ourselves
of the pastures of God.”

¹³O my God, make them like whirling dust,
like chaff before the wind.
¹⁴As fire consumes the forest,
as the flame sets the mountains ablaze,
¹⁵so may you pursue them with your tempest
and terrify them with your hurricane!
¹⁶ Fill their faces with shame,
that they may seek your name, O LORD.
¹⁷Let them be put to shame and dismayed forever;
let them perish in disgrace,
¹⁸that they may know that you alone,
whose name is the LORD,
are the Most High over all the earth.