GOD'S WORD Translation GW
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1 O God, do not remain silent. Do not turn a deaf ear to me. Do not keep quiet, O God.
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O God, do not remain silent; do not turn a deaf ear, do not stand aloof, O God.
2 Look, your enemies are in an uproar. Those who hate you hold their heads high.
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See how your enemies growl, how your foes rear their heads.
3 They make plans in secret against your people and plot together against those you treasure.
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With cunning they conspire against your people; they plot against those you cherish.
4 They say, "Let's wipe out their nation so that the name of Israel will no longer be remembered."
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“Come,” they say, “let us destroy them as a nation, so that Israel’s name is remembered no more.”
5 They agree completely on their plan. They form an alliance against you:
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With one mind they plot together; they form an alliance against you—
6 the tents from Edom and Ishmael, Moab and Hagar,
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the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, of Moab and the Hagrites,
7 Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia, along with those who live in Tyre.
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Byblos, Ammon and Amalek, Philistia, with the people of Tyre.
8 Even Assyria has joined them. They helped the descendants of Lot. Selah
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Even Assyria has joined them to reinforce Lot’s descendants.
9 Do to them what you did to Midian, to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River.
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Do to them as you did to Midian, as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon,
10 They were destroyed at Endor. They became manure to fertilize the ground.
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who perished at Endor and became like dung on the ground.
11 Treat their influential people as you treated Oreb and Zeeb. Treat all their leaders like Zebah and Zalmunna.
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Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
12 They said, "Let's take God's pasturelands for ourselves."
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who said, “Let us take possession of the pasturelands of God.”
13 O my God, blow them away like tumbleweeds, like husks in the wind.
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Make them like tumbleweed, my God, like chaff before the wind.
14 Pursue them with your storms, and terrify them with your windstorms
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As fire consumes the forest or a flame sets the mountains ablaze,
15 the way fire burns a forest and flames set mountains on fire.
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so pursue them with your tempest and terrify them with your storm.
16 Let their faces blush with shame, O LORD, so that they must look to you for help.
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Cover their faces with shame, LORD, so that they will seek your name.
17 Let them be put to shame and terrified forever. Let them die in disgrace
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May they ever be ashamed and dismayed; may they perish in disgrace.
18 so that they must acknowledge you. Your name is the LORD. You alone are the Most High God of the whole earth.
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Let them know that you, whose name is the LORD— that you alone are the Most High over all the earth.
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