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Psalms 83:1

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

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Psalms 83 · Read in context

83:1

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

83:2

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

83:3

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

83:4

“Come,” they say, “let’s destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”

83:5

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

83:6

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

83:7

Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;

83:8

Assyria also is joined with them. They have helped the children of Lot. Selah.

83:9

Do to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon;

83:10

who perished at Endor, who became as dung for the earth.

83:11

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

83:12

who said, “Let’s take possession of God’s pasture lands.”

83:13

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

83:14

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

83:15

so pursue them with your tempest, and terrify them with your storm.

83:16

Fill their faces with confusion, that they may seek your name, LORD.

83:17

Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish;

83:18

that they may know that you alone, whose name is the LORD, are the Most High over all the earth.

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