A song. A Psalm by Asaph.

• ¹God, don’t keep silent.
• Don’t keep silent,
• and don’t be still, God.

• ²For, behold, your enemies are stirred up.
• Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.

• ³They conspire with cunning against your people.
• They plot against your cherished ones.

• ⁴“Come,” they say, “and let’s destroy them as a nation,
• that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”

• ⁵For they have conspired together with one mind.
• They form an alliance against you.

• ⁶The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites;
• Moab, and the Hagrites;

• ⁷Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek;
• Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;

• ⁸Assyria also is joined with them.
• They have helped the children of Lot.

• Selah.

• ⁹Do to them as you did to Midian,
• as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon;

• ¹⁰who perished at Endor,
• who became as dung for the earth.

• ¹¹Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb;
• yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna;
• ¹²who said, “Let us take possession of God’s pasturelands.”

• ¹³My God, make them like tumbleweed;
• like chaff before the wind.

• ¹⁴As the fire that burns the forest,
• as the flame that sets the mountains on fire,
• ¹⁵so pursue them with your tempest,
• and terrify them with your storm.

• ¹⁶Fill their faces with confusion,
• that they may seek your name, Yahweh.

• ¹⁷Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever.
• Yes, let them be confounded and perish;

• ¹⁸that they may know that you alone, whose name is Yahweh,
• are the Most High over all the earth.