Psalms 83

1God, do not rest! Do not keep silent, and do not sit idle, God! 2Look, your enemies are in an uproar; those who hate you hold their heads high. 3They are plotting slyly against your people and conspiring against those you treasure. 4They say, “Come, let us wipe them out so they are no longer a nation; let no one ever again remember the name of Israel.” 5They have agreed together with one mind; they are making a treaty against you, 6Edom’s tent-dwellers, the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites, 7Gebal, Ammon and Amalek, Philistia and the people who live in Tyre. 8Assyria too has joined them; they lend their strength to the descendants of Lot. Selah 9Treat them the way you treated Midian, the way you treated Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon valley, 10who were wiped out at Endor and became manure on the ground. 11Deal with their nobles as with Oreb and Zeeb, and with all their chiefs as with Zebah and Zalmunna, 12who said, “Let us take God’s pasturelands as our own.” 13My God, make them like a tumbleweed spinning away, like husks driven by the wind. 14As a fire eats through a forest, as flames set the mountainsides alight, 15so hunt them down with your storm and fill them with terror by your gale. 16Load their faces with disgrace, so that they come seeking your name, LORD. 17May they be shamed and terrified for all time; may they be disgraced and come to ruin, 18and let them come to know that your name is the LORD, that only you are Most High over the whole earth.