Psalm 83

¹ HOLD not thy tongue, O God, keep not still silence * refrain not thyself, O God.

² For lo, thine enemies make a murmuring * and they that hate thee have lift up their head.

³ They have imagined craftily against thy people * and taken counsel against thy secret ones.

⁴ They have said, Come, and let us root them out, that they be no more a people * and that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.

⁵ For they have cast their heads together with one consent * and are confederate against thee;

⁶ The tabernacles of the Edomites, and the Ismaelites * the Moabites and Hagarenes;

⁷ Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek * the Philistines, with them that dwell at Tyre.

⁸ Assur also is joined with them * and have holpen the children of Lot.

⁹ But do thou to them as unto the Madianites * unto Sisera, and unto Jabin at the brook of Kison;

¹⁰ Who perished at Endor * and became as the dung of the earth.

¹¹ Make them and their princes like Oreb and Zeb * yea, make all their princes like as Zeba and Salmana;

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

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

¹⁴ Like as the fire that burneth up the wood * and as the flame that consumeth the mountains.

¹⁵ Persecute them even so with thy tempest * and make them afraid with thy storm.

¹⁶ Make their faces ashamed, O Lord * that they may seek thy Name.

¹⁷ Let them be confounded and vexed ever more and more * let them be put to shame, and perish.

¹⁸ And they shall know that thou, whose Name is Jehovah * art only the most Highest over all the earth.