Parallel Bible results for "Psalm 83"

Psalms 83

1 God, don't shut me out; don't give me the silent treatment, O God.

1 O God, do not remain silent; do not turn a deaf ear, do not stand aloof, O God.

2 Your enemies are out there whooping it up, the God-haters are living it up;

2 See how your enemies growl, how your foes rear their heads.

3 They're plotting to do your people in, conspiring to rob you of your precious ones.

3 With cunning they conspire against your people; they plot against those you cherish.

4 "Let's wipe this nation from the face of the earth," they say; "scratch Israel's name off the books."

4 “Come,” they say, “let us destroy them as a nation, so that Israel’s name is remembered no more.”

5 And now they're putting their heads together, making plans to get rid of you.

5 With one mind they plot together; they form an alliance against you—

6 Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites,

6 the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, of Moab and the Hagrites,

7 Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, Philistia and the Tyrians,

7 Byblos, Ammon and Amalek, Philistia, with the people of Tyre.

8 And now Assyria has joined up, Giving muscle to the gang of Lot.

8 Even Assyria has joined them to reinforce Lot’s descendants.

9 Do to them what you did to Midian, to Sisera and Jabin at Kishon Brook;

9 Do to them as you did to Midian, as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon,

10 They came to a bad end at Endor, nothing but dung for the garden.

10 who perished at Endor and became like dung on the ground.

11 Cut down their leaders as you did Oreb and Zeeb, their princes to nothings like Zebah and Zalmunna,

11 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,

12 With their empty brags, "We're grabbing it all, grabbing God's gardens for ourselves."

12 who said, “Let us take possession of the pasturelands of God.”

13 My God! I've had it with them! Blow them away! Tumbleweeds in the desert waste,

13 Make them like tumbleweed, my God, like chaff before the wind.

14 charred sticks in the burned-over ground.

14 As fire consumes the forest or a flame sets the mountains ablaze,

15 Knock the breath right out of them, so they're gasping

15 so pursue them with your tempest and terrify them with your storm.

16 for breath, gasping, "God."

16 Cover their faces with shame, LORD, so that they will seek your name.

17 Bring them to the end of their rope, and leave them there dangling, helpless.

17 May they ever be ashamed and dismayed; may they perish in disgrace.

18 Then they'll learn your name: "God," the one and only High God on earth.

18 Let them know that you, whose name is the LORD— that you alone are the Most High over all the earth.