A song. A psalm of Asaph.
1 O God, do not remain silent; do not turn a deaf ear, do not stand aloof, O God.
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See how your enemies growl, how your foes rear their heads.
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With cunning they conspire against your people; they plot against those you cherish.
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“Come,” they say, “let us destroy them as a nation, so that Israel’s name is remembered no more.”
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With one mind they plot together; they form an alliance against you—
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the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, of Moab and the Hagrites,
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Byblos, Ammon and Amalek, Philistia, with the people of Tyre.
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Even Assyria has joined them to reinforce Lot’s descendants.
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Do to them as you did to Midian, as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon,