• Psalm 83In Hebrew texts 83:1-18 is numbered 83:2-19.

  • 1 O God, do not remain silent; do not turn a deaf ear, do not stand aloof, O God.
  • 2 See how your enemies growl, how your foes rear their heads.
  • 3 With cunning they conspire against your people; they plot against those you cherish.
  • 4 “Come,” they say, “let us destroy them as a nation, so that Israel’s name is remembered no more.”
  • 5 With one mind they plot together; they form an alliance against you—
  • 6 the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, of Moab and the Hagrites,
  • 7 Byblos, Ammon and Amalek, Philistia, with the people of Tyre.
  • 8 Even Assyria has joined them to reinforce Lot’s descendants.
  • 9 Do to them as you did to Midian, as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon,
  • 10 who perished at Endor and became like dung on the ground.
  • 11 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
  • 12 who said, “Let us take possession of the pasturelands of God.”
  • 13 Make them like tumbleweed, my God, like chaff before the wind.
  • 14 As fire consumes the forest or a flame sets the mountains ablaze,
  • 15 so pursue them with your tempest and terrify them with your storm.
  • 16 Cover their faces with shame, Lord, so that they will seek your name.
  • 17 May they ever be ashamed and dismayed; may they perish in disgrace.
  • 18 Let them know that you, whose name is the Lord— that you alone are the Most High over all the earth.