Psalm 83

New Coverdale Version

Hold not your tongue, O God; keep not silent, * but rouse yourself, O God.

For behold, your enemies murmur, * and those who hate you have lifted up their head.

They have conspired secretly against your people * and taken counsel against your cherished ones.

They have said, “Come, and let us wipe them out, that they may be no more a people, * and that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”

For they have brought their heads together with one consent * and are aligned against you:

The tents of the Edomites and the Ishmaelites, * the Moabites and Hagarenes,

Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek, * the Philistines with those who dwell at Tyre.

Assyria also has joined with them, * and has helped the children of Lot.

But do to them as you did to the Midianites, * to Sisera and to Jabin at the brook of Kishon,

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

Make their princes like Oreb and Zeëb; * indeed, make all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,

Who said, “Let us take for ourselves * the pastures of God as our possession.”

O my God, make them like whirling dust * and like stubble before the wind,

Like the fire that burns up the woods * and like the flame that consumes the mountains.

Pursue them even with your tempest, * and make them afraid with your storm.

Cover their faces with shame, O Lord, * that they may seek your Name.

Let them be disgraced and dismayed ever more and more; * let them be put to shame and perish.

And they shall know that you, whose Name is the Lord, * are alone the Most High over all the earth.