A song. A Psalm by Asaph.
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1God, don’t keep silent.
- Don’t keep silent,
- and don’t be still, God.
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2For, behold, your enemies are stirred up.
- Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.
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3They conspire with cunning against your people.
- They plot against your cherished ones.
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4“Come,” they say, “and let’s destroy them as a nation,
- that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”
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5For they have conspired together with one mind.
- They form an alliance against you.
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6The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites;
- Moab, and the Hagrites;
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7Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek;
- Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
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8Assyria also is joined with them.
- They have helped the children of Lot.
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9Do to them as you did to Midian,
- as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon;
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10who perished at Endor,
- who became as dung for the earth.
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11Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb;
- yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna;
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12who said, “Let us take possession of God’s pasturelands.”
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13My God, make them like tumbleweed;
- like chaff before the wind.
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14As the fire that burns the forest,
- as the flame that sets the mountains on fire,
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15so pursue them with your tempest,
- and terrify them with your storm.
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16Fill their faces with confusion,
- that they may seek your name, Yahweh.
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17Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever.
- Yes, let them be confounded and perish;
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18that they may know that you alone, whose name is Yahweh,
- are the Most High over all the earth.