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1 <A Song. A Psalm. Of Asaph.> O God, do not keep quiet: let your lips be open and take no rest, 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 For see! those who make war on you are out of control; your haters are lifting up their heads.
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See how your enemies growl, how your foes rear their heads.
3 They have made wise designs against your people, talking together against those whom you keep in a secret place.
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With cunning they conspire against your people; they plot against those you cherish.
4 They have said, Come, let us put an end to them as a nation; so that the name of Israel may go out of man's memory.
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“Come,” they say, “let us destroy them as a nation, so that Israel’s name is remembered no more.”
5 For they have all come to an agreement; they are all joined together against you:
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With one mind they plot together; they form an alliance against you—
6 The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab and the Hagarites;
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the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, of Moab and the Hagrites,
7 Gebal and Ammon and Amalek; the Philistines and the people of Tyre;
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Byblos, Ammon and Amalek, Philistia, with the people of Tyre.
8 Assur is joined with them; they have become the support of the children 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 the Midianites; what you did to Sisera and Jabin, at the stream of Kishon:
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Do to them as you did to Midian, as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon,
10 Who came to destruction at En-dor; their bodies became dust and waste.
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who perished at Endor and became like dung on the ground.
11 Make their chiefs like Oreb and Zeeb; and all their rulers like Zebah and Zalmunna:
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Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
12 Who have said, Let us take for our heritage the resting-place of God.
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who said, “Let us take possession of the pasturelands of God.”
13 O my God, make them like the rolling dust; like dry stems before the wind.
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Make them like tumbleweed, my God, like chaff before the wind.
14 As fire burning a wood, and as a flame causing fire on the mountains,
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As fire consumes the forest or a flame sets the mountains ablaze,
15 So go after them with your strong wind, and let them be full of fear because of your storm.
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so pursue them with your tempest and terrify them with your storm.
16 Let their faces be full of shame; so that they may give honour to your name, O Lord.
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Cover their faces with shame, LORD, so that they will seek your name.
17 Let them be overcome and troubled for ever; let them be put to shame and come to destruction;
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May they ever be ashamed and dismayed; may they perish in disgrace.
18 So that men may see that you only, whose name is Yahweh, are Most High over all the 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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