Good News Translation GNT
Revised Standard Version RSV
1 O God, do not keep silent; do not be still, do not be quiet!
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A Song. A Psalm of Asaph. O God, do not keep silence; do not hold thy peace or be still, O God!
2 Look! Your enemies are in revolt, and those who hate you are rebelling.
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For lo, thy enemies are in tumult; those who hate thee have raised their heads.
3 They are making secret plans against your people; they are plotting against those you protect.
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They lay crafty plans against thy people; they consult together against thy protected ones.
4 "Come," they say, "let us destroy their nation, so that Israel will be forgotten forever."
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They say, "Come, let us wipe them out as a nation; let the name of Israel be remembered no more!"
5 They agree on their plan and form an alliance against you:
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Yea, they conspire with one accord; against thee they make a covenant--
6 the people of Edom and the Ishmaelites; the people of Moab and the Hagrites;
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the tents of Edom and the Ish'maelites, Moab and the Hagrites,
7 the people of Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, and of Philistia and Tyre.
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Gebal and Ammon and Am'alek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
8 Assyria has also joined them as a strong ally of the Ammonites and Moabites, the descendants of Lot.
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Assyria also has joined them; they are the strong arm of the children of Lot. [Selah]
9 Do to them what you did to the Midianites, and to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River.
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Do to them as thou didst to Mid'ian, as to Sis'era and Jabin at the river Kishon,
10 You defeated them at Endor, and their bodies rotted on the ground.
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who were destroyed at En-dor, who became dung for the ground.
11 Do to their leaders what you did to Oreb and Zeeb; defeat all their rulers as you did Zebah and Zalmunna,
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Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmun'na,
12 who said, "We will take for our own the land that belongs to God."
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who said, "Let us take possession for ourselves of the pastures of God."
13 Scatter them like dust, O God, like straw blown away by the wind.
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O my God, make them like whirling dust, like chaff before the wind.
14 As fire burns the forest, as flames set the hills on fire,
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As fire consumes the forest, as the flame sets the mountains ablaze,
15 chase them away with your storm and terrify them with your fierce winds.
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so do thou pursue them with thy tempest and terrify them with thy hurricane!
16 Cover their faces with shame, O Lord, and make them acknowledge your power.
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Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek thy name, O LORD.
17 May they be defeated and terrified forever; may they die in complete disgrace.
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Let them be put to shame and dismayed for ever; let them perish in disgrace.
18 May they know that you alone are the Lord, supreme ruler over all the earth.
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Let them know that thou alone, whose name is the LORD, art the Most High over all the earth.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.