The Message Bible MSG
Young's Literal Translation YLT
1 God, don't shut me out; don't give me the silent treatment, O God.
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A Song, -- A Psalm of Asaph. O God, let there be no silence to Thee, Be not silent, nor be quiet, O God.
2 Your enemies are out there whooping it up, the God-haters are living it up;
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For, lo, Thine enemies do roar, And those hating Thee have lifted up the head,
3 They're plotting to do your people in, conspiring to rob you of your precious ones.
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Against Thy people they take crafty counsel, And consult against Thy hidden 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 have said, `Come, And we cut them off from [being] a nation, And the name of Israel is not remembered any more.'
5 And now they're putting their heads together, making plans to get rid of you.
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For they consulted in heart together, Against Thee a covenant they make,
6 Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites,
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Tents of Edom, and Ishmaelites, Moab, and the Hagarenes,
7 Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, Philistia and the Tyrians,
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Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia with inhabitants of Tyre,
8 And now Assyria has joined up, Giving muscle to the gang of Lot.
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Asshur also is joined with them, They have been an arm to sons 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 [to] Midian, As [to] Sisera, as [to] Jabin, at the stream Kishon.
10 They came to a bad end at Endor, nothing but dung for the garden.
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They were destroyed at Endor, They were 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 as Oreb and as Zeeb, And as Zebah and Zalmunna all their princes,
12 With their empty brags, "We're grabbing it all, grabbing God's gardens for ourselves."
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Who have said, `Let us occupy for ourselves The comely places 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 as a rolling thing, As stubble before wind.
14 charred sticks in the burned-over ground.
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As a fire doth burn a forest, And as a flame setteth hills on fire,
15 Knock the breath right out of them, so they're gasping
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So dost Thou pursue them with Thy whirlwind, And with Thy hurricane troublest them.
16 for breath, gasping, "God."
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Fill their faces [with] shame, And they seek Thy name, O Jehovah.
17 Bring them to the end of their rope, and leave them there dangling, helpless.
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They are ashamed and troubled for ever, Yea, they are confounded and lost.
18 Then they'll learn your name: "God," the one and only High God on earth.
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And they know that Thou -- (Thy name [is] Jehovah -- by Thyself,) [Art] the Most High over all the earth!
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