*Psalms 83

₁O God, please do not keep quiet.

Don't be silent and look away.

Please do something.

₂Your enemies are making a noise,

and the people who hate You are coming to attack us.

₃They are making plans against us,

and we are your people.

They think about what they can do

against the people You love.

₄They say: ‘Let us kill all of them.

They must no longer be a nation,

and no one must remember the name of Israel.’

₅They come together and make plans against You,

and they make an agreement to work together.

₆The enemies are the Edomites, the Ishmaelites,

the people of Moab and the Hagrites,

₇the people of Byblos, Ammon and Amalek,

the Philistines and the people who live in Tyre.

₈The people of Assyria are with them too,

and they help the children of Lot and make them strong. Selah

₉Please do to them what

You did to the Midianites,

and what You did to Sisera and Jabin

at the Kishon River.

₁₀They died at Endor. Their bodies

lay on the ground and rotted.

₁₁Please do to their leaders

what You did to Oreb and Zeeb.

Cause all of their leaders to die

like Zebah and Zalmunna.

₁₂They are the people who said:

‘Let us take the land of the

people of God for ourselves.’

₁₃My God, please make our enemies

like dust in the wind,

like chaff that blows away in the wind.

₁₄Chase them away.

Burn them with a fire that burns down a forest

and like a mountain that is on fire.

₁₅Make them afraid with your strong winds,

your storm winds that blow everything away.

₁₆Please make them ashamed

so that they will know

that You are the Lord.

₁₇Make them afraid and ashamed forever.

Humiliate and destroy them.

₁₈Then they will know that

only You are the Lord,

and that You are the Most High God over all the earth.