Psalm 83 — Legacy Standard Bible

O God, Do Not Be Quiet

A Song. A Psalm of Asaph.

O God, ^ado not remain at rest;^bDo not be silent and, O God, do not be quiet.²For behold, Your enemies ^aroar,And ^bthose who hate You have ^clifted up their heads.³They ^amake shrewd plans against Your people,And ¹conspire together against ^bYour ²treasured ones.⁴They have said, “Come, and ^alet us wipe them out ¹as a nation,That the ^bname of Israel be remembered no more.”⁵For they have ¹^,^aconspired together with one heart;Against You they cut a covenant:⁶The tents of ^aEdom and the ^bIshmaelites,^cMoab and the ^dHagrites;⁷^aGebal and ^bAmmon and ^cAmalek,^dPhilistia with the inhabitants of ^eTyre;⁸^aAssyria also has joined with them;They have become ¹the power of the ^bchildren of Lot. ² Selah.⁹Do to them ^aas to Midian,As ^bto Sisera, and Jabin at the river of Kishon,¹⁰Who were destroyed at En-dor,Who ^awere as dung for the ground.¹¹Make their nobles like ^aOreb and ZeebAnd all their princes like ^bZebah and Zalmunna,¹²Who said, “^aLet us possess for ourselvesThe ^bpastures of God.”¹³O my God, make them like the ¹^,^awhirling dust,Like ^bchaff before the wind.¹⁴Like ^afire that burns the forestAnd like a flame that ^bburns up the mountains,¹⁵So pursue them ^awith Your tempestAnd dismay them with Your storm.¹⁶^aFill their faces with disgrace,That they may seek Your name, O Yahweh.¹⁷Let them be ^aashamed and dismayed forever,And let them be humiliated and perish,¹⁸That they may ^aknow that ^bYou alone—Your name is Yahweh—Are the ^cMost High over all the earth.