PSALM 83

Prayer for Judgment on Israel’s Foes

Psalm 83:1 O God, do not keep silence; do not hold your peace or be still, O God!

Psalm 83:2 For behold, your enemies are in tumult; those who hate you have raised their heads.

Psalm 83:3 They lay crafty plans against your people; they consult together against your protected ones.

Psalm 83:4 They say, “Come, let us wipe them out as a nation; let the name of Israel be remembered no more!”

Psalm 83:5 Yes, they conspire with one accord; against you they make a covenant

Psalm 83:6 the tents of Edom and the Ish'maelites, Moab and the Hagrites,

Psalm 83:7 Gebal and Ammon and Am'alek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;

Psalm 83:8 Assyria also has joined them; they are the strong arm of the children of Lot.

Psalm 83:9 Do to them as you did to Mid'ian, as to Sis'era and Jabin at the river Kishon,

Psalm 83:10 who were destroyed at En-dor, who became dung for the ground.

Psalm 83:11 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmun'na,

Psalm 83:12 who said, “Let us take possession for ourselves of the pastures of God.”

Psalm 83:13 O my God, make them like whirling dust, like chaff before the wind.

Psalm 83:14 As fire consumes the forest, as the flame sets the mountains ablaze,

Psalm 83:15 so you pursue them with your tempest and terrify them with your hurricane!

Psalm 83:16 Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek your name, O LORD.

Psalm 83:17 Let them be put to shame and dismayed for ever; let them perish in disgrace.

Psalm 83:18 Let them know that you alone, whose name is the LORD, are the Most High over all the earth.