| Chapter 83 |
1 | A Song, -- A Psalm of Asaph. O God, let there be no silence to Thee, Be not silent, nor be quiet, O God.
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2 | For, lo, Thine enemies do roar, And those hating Thee have lifted up the head,
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3 | Against Thy people they take crafty counsel, And consult against Thy hidden ones.
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4 | They have said, 'Come, And we cut them off from [being] a nation, And the name of Israel is not remembered any more.'
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5 | For they consulted in heart together, Against Thee a covenant they make,
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6 | Tents of Edom, and Ishmaelites, Moab, and the Hagarenes,
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7 | Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia with inhabitants of Tyre,
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8 | Asshur also is joined with them, They have been an arm to sons of Lot. Selah.
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9 | Do to them as [to] Midian, As [to] Sisera, as [to] Jabin, at the stream Kishon.
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10 | They were destroyed at Endor, They were dung for the ground!
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11 | Make their nobles as Oreb and as Zeeb, And as Zebah and Zalmunna all their princes,
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12 | Who have said, 'Let us occupy for ourselves The comely places of God.'
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13 | O my God, make them as a rolling thing, As stubble before wind.
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14 | As a fire doth burn a forest, And as a flame setteth hills on fire,
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15 | So dost Thou pursue them with Thy whirlwind, And with Thy hurricane troublest them.
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16 | Fill their faces [with] shame, And they seek Thy name, O Jehovah.
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17 | They are ashamed and troubled for ever, Yea, they are confounded and lost.
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18 | And they know that Thou -- (Thy name [is] Jehovah -- by Thyself,) [Art] the Most High over all the earth!
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