1.4 KiB
Psalm 83Prayer against Enemies
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God, do not keep silent. Do not be deaf, God; do not be quiet.
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See how your enemies make an uproar; those who hate you have acted arrogantly.
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They devise clever schemes against your people; they conspire against your treasured ones.
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They say, "Come, let's wipe them out as a nation so that Israel's name will no longer be remembered."
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For they have conspired with one mind; they form an alliance against you--
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the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites,
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Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre.
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Even Assyria has joined them; they lend support to the sons of Lot.Selah
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Deal with them as you did with Midian, as you did with Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River.
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They were destroyed at En-dor; they became manure for the ground.
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Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, and all their tribal leaders like Zebah and Zalmunna,
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who said, "Let's seize God's pastures for ourselves."
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Make them like tumbleweed, my God, like straw before the wind.
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As fire burns a forest, as a flame blazes through mountains,
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so pursue them with your tempest and terrify them with your storm.
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Cover their faces with shame so that they will seek your name, Lord.
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Let them be put to shame and terrified forever; let them perish in disgrace.
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May they know that you alone-- whose name is the Lord-- are the Most High over the whole earth.