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Chapter Context
Psalms 83
Intro: A prayer against them that oppress. (A Song or Psalm of Asaph.)
1 Keep not thou silence, O God; hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
2 For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult; and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent; they are confederate against thee;
6 The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;
8 Assur also is joined with them; they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.
9 Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kishon;
10 Which perished at En-dor; they became as dung for the earth.
11 Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb; yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna;
12 Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.
13 O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
14 As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;
15 So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.
16 Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O Lord.
17 Let them be confounded and troubled forever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish.
18 That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the Most High over all the earth.