Shared Word Translation
Psalm 83
Do Not Keep Silent, O God
O God, do not remain silent;
do not be quiet, and do not be still, O God.
For look, your enemies are in an uproar;
those who hate you have raised their heads.
They make crafty plans against your people
and conspire against those you treasure.
They say, “Come, let us wipe them out as a nation,
so that the name of Israel is remembered no more.”
For they conspire together with one heart;
against you they make a covenant:
the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,
Moab and the Hagrites,
Gebal and Ammon and Amalek,
Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
Assyria also has joined them;
they have become an arm for the children of Lot.
Selah.
Make Them Like Midian
Do to them as you did to Midian,
as to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon,
who were destroyed at En-dor
and became dung for the ground.
Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb,
all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
who said, “Let us take for ourselves
the pastures of God.”
Let Them Seek Your Name
My God, make them like tumbleweed,
like chaff before the wind.
As fire burns a forest,
and as flame sets mountains ablaze,
so pursue them with your tempest
and terrify them with your storm.
Fill their faces with shame,
so that they may seek your name, O LORD.
Let them be ashamed and dismayed forever;
let them be disgraced and perish.
Let them know that you alone—
whose name is the LORD—
are Most High over all the earth.