Psalm 83, side by side

¹A song. A Psalm of Asaph. O God, be not silent; be not speechless; be not still, O God.

¹Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.

²See how Your enemies rage, how Your foes have reared their heads.

²For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.

³With cunning they scheme against Your people and conspire against those You cherish,

³They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.

⁴saying, “Come, let us erase them as a nation; may the name of Israel be remembered no more.”

⁴They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.

⁵For with one mind they plot together, they form an alliance against You—

⁵For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:

⁶the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, of Moab and the Hagrites,

⁶The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;

⁷of Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, of Philistia with the people of Tyre.

⁷Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;

⁸Even Assyria has joined them, lending strength to the sons of Lot. Selah

⁸Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.

⁹Do to them as You did to Midian, as to Sisera and Jabin at the River Kishon,

⁹Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:

¹⁰who perished at Endor and became like dung on the ground.

¹⁰Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth.

¹¹Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, and all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,

¹¹Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:

¹²who said, “Let us possess for ourselves the pastures of God.”

¹²Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.

¹³Make them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind.

¹³O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.

¹⁴As fire consumes a forest, as a flame sets the mountains ablaze,

¹⁴As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;

¹⁵so pursue them with Your tempest, and terrify them with Your storm.

¹⁵So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.

¹⁶Cover their faces with shame, that they may seek Your name, O LORD.

¹⁶Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.

¹⁷May they be ever ashamed and terrified; may they perish in disgrace.

¹⁷Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:

¹⁸May they know that You alone, whose name is the LORD, are Most High over all the earth.

¹⁸That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.