King James Version KJV
New Living Translation NLT
1 Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
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O God, do not be silent! Do not be deaf. Do not be quiet, O God.
2 For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
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Don’t you hear the uproar of your enemies? Don’t you see that your arrogant enemies are rising up?
3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.
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They devise crafty schemes against your people; they conspire against your precious ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
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“Come,” they say, “let us wipe out Israel as a nation. We will destroy the very memory of its existence.”
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:
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Yes, this was their unanimous decision. They signed a treaty as allies against you—
6 The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
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these Edomites and Ishmaelites; Moabites and Hagrites;
7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;
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Gebalites, Ammonites, and Amalekites; and people from Philistia and Tyre.
8 Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.
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Assyria has joined them, too, and is allied with the descendants of Lot. Interlude
9 Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:
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Do to them as you did to the Midianites and as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River.
10 Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth.
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They were destroyed at Endor, and their decaying corpses fertilized the soil.
11 Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:
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Let their mighty nobles die as Oreb and Zeeb did. Let all their princes die like Zebah and Zalmunna,
12 Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.
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for they said, “Let us seize for our own use these pasturelands of God!”
13 O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
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O my God, scatter them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind!
14 As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;
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As a fire burns a forest and as a flame sets mountains ablaze,
15 So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.
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chase them with your fierce storm; terrify them with your tempest.
16 Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.
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Utterly disgrace them until they submit to your name, O LORD .
17 Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:
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Let them be ashamed and terrified forever. Let them die in disgrace.
18 That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.
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Then they will learn that you alone are called the LORD, that you alone are the Most High, supreme over all the earth.
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