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# Chapter 83
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1 O God, do not be silent!
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Do not be deaf.
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Do not be quiet, O God.
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2 Don’t you hear the uproar of your enemies?
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Don’t you see that your arrogant enemies are rising up?
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3 They devise crafty schemes against your people;
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they conspire against your precious ones.
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4 “Come,” they say, “let us wipe out Israel as a nation.
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We will destroy the very memory of its existence.”
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5 Yes, this was their unanimous decision.
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They signed a treaty as allies against you—
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6 these Edomites and Ishmaelites;
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Moabites and Hagrites;
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7 Gebalites, Ammonites, and Amalekites;
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and people from Philistia and Tyre.
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8 Assyria has joined them, too,
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and is allied with the descendants of Lot. Interlude
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9 Do to them as you did to the Midianites
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and as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River.
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10 They were destroyed at Endor,
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and their decaying corpses fertilized the soil.
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11 Let their mighty nobles die as Oreb and Zeeb did.
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Let all their princes die like Zebah and Zalmunna,
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12 for they said, “Let us seize for our own use
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these pasturelands of God!”
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13 O my God, scatter them like tumbleweed,
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like chaff before the wind!
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14 As a fire burns a forest
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and as a flame sets mountains ablaze,
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15 chase them with your fierce storm;
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terrify them with your tempest.
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16 Utterly disgrace them
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until they submit to your name, O Lord.
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17 Let them be ashamed and terrified forever.
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Let them die in disgrace.
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18 Then they will learn that you alone are called the Lord,
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that you alone are the Most High,
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supreme over all the earth. |