GOD'S WORD Translation GW
New King James Version NKJV
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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A Song. A Psalm of Asaph. Do not keep silent, O God! Do not hold Your peace, And do not be still, O God!
2 Look, your enemies are in an uproar. Those who hate you hold their heads high.
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For behold, Your enemies make a tumult; And those who hate You have lifted up their head.
3 They make plans in secret against your people and plot together against those you treasure.
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They have taken crafty counsel against Your people, And consulted together against Your sheltered ones.
4 They say, "Let's wipe out their nation so that the name of Israel will no longer be remembered."
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They have said, "Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more."
5 They agree completely on their plan. They form an alliance against you:
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For they have consulted together with one consent; They form a confederacy against You:
6 the tents from Edom and Ishmael, Moab and Hagar,
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The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab and the Hagrites;
7 Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia, along with those who live in Tyre.
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Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
8 Even Assyria has joined them. They helped the descendants of Lot. Selah
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Assyria also has joined with them; They have helped the children of Lot. Selah
9 Do to them what you did to Midian, to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River.
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Deal with them as with Midian, As with Sisera, As with Jabin at the Brook Kishon,
10 They were destroyed at Endor. They became manure to fertilize the ground.
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Who perished at En Dor, Who became as refuse on the earth.
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 like Zeeb, Yes, 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 for ourselves The pastures of God for a possession."
13 O my God, blow them away like tumbleweeds, like husks in the wind.
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O my God, make them like the whirling dust, Like the chaff before the wind!
14 Pursue them with your storms, and terrify them with your windstorms
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As the fire burns the woods, And as the flame sets the mountains on fire,
15 the way fire burns a forest and flames set mountains on fire.
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So pursue them with Your tempest, And frighten 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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Fill their faces with shame, That they may seek Your name, O Lord.
17 Let them be put to shame and terrified forever. Let them die in disgrace
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Let them be confounded and dismayed forever; Yes, let them be put to shame and perish,
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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That they may know that You, whose name alone is the Lord, Are the Most High over all the earth.