• God Implored to Confound His Enemies.

  • 1 God, do not remain quiet; Do not be silent and, God, do not be still.
  • 2 For behold, Your enemies make an uproar, And those who hate You have exalted themselves.
  • 3 They make shrewd plans against Your people, And conspire together against Your treasured ones.
  • 4 They have said, “Come, and let’s wipe them out as a nation, So that the name of Israel will no longer be remembered.”
  • 5 For they have conspired together with one mind; They make a covenant against You:
  • 6 The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites;
  • 7 Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
  • 8 Assyria also has joined them; They have become a help to the children of Lot. Selah
  • 9 Deal with them as with Midian, As with Sisera and Jabin at the river of Kishon,
  • 10 Who were destroyed at En-dor, Who became like dung for the ground.
  • 11 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, And all their leaders like Zebah and Zalmunna,
  • 12 Who said, “Let’s possess for ourselves The pastures of God.”
  • 13 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 sets the mountains on fire,
  • 15 So pursue them with Your heavy gale, And terrify them with Your storm.
  • 16 Fill their faces with dishonor, So that they will seek Your name, Lord.
  • 17 May they be ashamed and dismayed forever, And may they be humiliated and perish,
  • 18 So that they will know that You alone, whose name is the Lord, Are the Most High over all the earth.