The Message Bible MSG
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1 God, don't shut me out; don't give me the silent treatment, O God.
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O God, do not keep silence; do not hold your peace or be still, O God!
2 Your enemies are out there whooping it up, the God-haters are living it up;
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For behold, your enemies make an uproar; those who hate you have raised their heads.
3 They're plotting to do your people in, conspiring to rob you of your precious ones.
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They lay crafty plans against your people; they consult together against your treasured ones.
4 "Let's wipe this nation from the face of the earth," they say; "scratch Israel's name off the books."
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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 And now they're putting their heads together, making plans to get rid of you.
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For they conspire with one accord; against you they make a covenant--
6 Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites,
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the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites,
7 Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, Philistia and the Tyrians,
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Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
8 And now Assyria has joined up, Giving muscle to the gang of Lot.
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Asshur also has joined them; they are the strong arm of the children of Lot. Selah
9 Do to them what you did to Midian, to Sisera and Jabin at Kishon Brook;
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Do to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon,
10 They came to a bad end at Endor, nothing but dung for the garden.
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who were destroyed at En-dor, who became dung for the ground.
11 Cut down their leaders as you did Oreb and Zeeb, their princes to nothings like Zebah and Zalmunna,
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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."
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who said, "Let us take possession for ourselves of the pastures of God."
13 My God! I've had it with them! Blow them away! Tumbleweeds in the desert waste,
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O my God, make them like whirling dust, like chaff before the wind.
14 charred sticks in the burned-over ground.
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As fire consumes the forest, as the flame sets the mountains ablaze,
15 Knock the breath right out of them, so they're gasping
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so may you pursue them with your tempest and terrify them with your hurricane!
16 for breath, gasping, "God."
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Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek your name, O LORD.
17 Bring them to the end of their rope, and leave them there dangling, helpless.
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Let them be put to shame and dismayed forever; let them perish in disgrace,
18 Then they'll learn your name: "God," the one and only High God on earth.
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that they may know that you alone, whose name is the LORD, are the Most High over all the earth.
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