83[A song. A psalm of Asaph.] O God, do not be silent! Do not be deaf. Do not be quiet, O God.H7892H4210H623H1824H430H2790H8252H4102Don’t you hear the uproar of your enemies? Don’t you see that your arrogant enemies are rising up?H341H1993H8130H5375H72183They devise crafty schemes against your people; they conspire against your precious ones.H6191H5475H5971H3289H68454“Come,” they say, “let us wipe out Israel as a nation. We will destroy the very memory of its existence.”H559H3212H3582H1471H8034H3478H21425Yes, this was their unanimous decision. They signed a treaty as allies against you—H3289H3162H3820H3772H12856these Edomites and Ishmaelites; Moabites and Hagrites;H168H123H3459H4124H19057Gebalites, Ammonites, and Amalekites; and people from Philistia and Tyre.H1381H5983H6002H6429H3427H68658Assyria has joined them, too, and is allied with the descendants of Lot. InterludeH804H3867H2220H1121H3876H55429Do to them as you did to the Midianites and as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River.H6213H4080H5516H2985H5158H702810They were destroyed at Endor, and their decaying corpses fertilized the soil.H8045H5874H1828H12711Let their mighty nobles die as Oreb and Zeeb did. Let all their princes die like Zebah and Zalmunna,H7896H5081H6159H2062H5257H2078H675912for they said, “Let us seize for our own use these pasturelands of God!”H559H4999H430H342313O my God, scatter them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind!H430H7896H1534H7179H6440H730714As a fire burns a forest and as a flame sets mountains ablaze,H784H1197H3293H3852H3857H2022H385715chase them with your fierce storm; terrify them with your tempest.H7291H5591H926H549216Utterly disgrace them until they submit to your name, O Lord.H4390H6440H7036H1245H8034H306817Let them be ashamed and terrified forever. Let them die in disgrace.H954H926H5703H2659H618Then they will learn that you alone are called the Lord, that you alone are the Most High, supreme over all the earth.H3045H8034H3068H5945H776