• O God, Do Not Be Quiet

  • 1 O God, do not remain at rest; Do not be silent and, O God, do not be quiet.
  • 2 For behold, Your enemies roar, And those who hate You have lifted up their heads.
  • 3 They make shrewd plans against Your people, And conspire together against Your treasured ones.
  • 4 They have said, “Come, and let us wipe them out as a nation, That the name of Israel be remembered no more.”
  • 5 For they have conspired together with one heart; Against You they cut a covenant:
  • 6 The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites;
  • 7 Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
  • 8 Assyria also has joined with them; They have become the power of the children of Lot. Selah.
  • 9 Do to them as to Midian, As to Sisera, and Jabin at the river of Kishon,
  • 10 Who were destroyed at En-dor, Who were as dung for the ground.
  • 11 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb And all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
  • 12 Who said, “Let us possess for ourselves The pastures of God.”
  • 13 O my God, make them like the whirling dust, Like chaff before the wind.
  • 14 Like fire that burns the forest And like a flame that burns up the mountains,
  • 15 So pursue them with Your tempest And dismay them with Your storm.
  • 16 Fill their faces with disgrace, That they may seek Your name, O Yahweh.
  • 17 Let them be ashamed and dismayed forever, And let them be humiliated and perish,
  • 18 That they may know that You alone—Your name is Yahweh— Are the Most High over all the earth.