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Psalm 83

^83:1 O God, do not be silent. Do not ignore us. Do not be inactive, O God. ^83:2 For look, your enemies are making a commotion; those who hate you are hostile. ^83:3 They carefully plot against your people, and make plans to harm the ones you cherish. ^83:4 They say, “Come on, let’s annihilate them so they are no longer a nation. Then the name of Israel will be remembered no more.” ^83:5 Yes, they devise a unified strategy; they form an alliance against you. ^83:6 It includes the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites, ^83:7 Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia, and the inhabitants of Tyre. ^83:8 Even Assyria has allied with them, lending its strength to the descendants of Lot. (Selah) ^83:9 Do to them as you did to Midian — as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River. ^83:10 They were destroyed at Endor; their corpses were like manure on the ground. ^83:11 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, and all their rulers like Zebah and Zalmunna, ^83:12 who said, “Let’s take over the pastures of God.” ^83:13 O my God, make them like dead thistles, like dead weeds blown away by the wind. ^83:14 Like the fire that burns down the forest, or the flames that consume the mountainsides, ^83:15 chase them with your gale winds and terrify them with your windstorm. ^83:16 Cover their faces with shame, so they might seek you, O Lord. ^83:17 May they be humiliated and continually terrified. May they die in shame. ^83:18 Then they will know that you alone are the Lord, the Most High over all the earth.

^83:18 For the music director, according to the gittith style; written by the Korahites, a psalm.