Verse 1
Psalms 83:1
GOD'S WORD Translation
1
God (Elohim), don’t keep silent.
Don’t keep silent,
and don’t be still, God (Elohim).
Original Language Text
hebrew
שִׁ֖יר מִזְמ֣וֹר לְ/אָסָֽף
English Translation
A song, a psalm for Asaph.
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Chapter 83 Context
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God (Elohim), don’t keep silent.
Don’t keep silent,
and don’t be still, God (Elohim).
2
For, behold, your enemies are stirred up.
Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.
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They conspire with cunning against your people.
They plot against your cherished ones.
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“Come,” they say, “let’s destroy them as a nation,
that the name of Israel may be remembered no more...
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For they have conspired together with one mind.
They form an alliance against you.
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The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites;
Moab, and the Hagrites;
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Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek;
Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
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Assyria also is joined with them.
They have helped the children of Lot.
Selah.
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Do to them as you did to Midian,
as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon;
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10
who perished at Endor,
who became as dung for the earth.
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11
Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb;
yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna;
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12
who said, “Let us take possession of God (Elohim)’s pasture lands.”
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13
My God (Elohim), make them like tumbleweed;
like chaff before the wind.
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14
As the fire that burns the forest,
as the flame that sets the mountains on fire,
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15
so pursue them with your tempest,
and terrify them with your storm.
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16
Fill their faces with confusion,
that they may seek your name, Yahweh.
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17
Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever.
Yes, let them be confounded and perish;
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that they may know that you alone, whose name is Yahweh,
are the Most High over all the earth.
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