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1 O God, do not remain silent; do not turn a deaf ear, do not stand aloof, O God.
1 O God, do not rest [silently]. Do not keep silent or be still, O God.
2 See how your enemies growl, how your foes rear their heads.
2 For look, your enemies roar, and those who hate you have lifted [their] head.
3 With cunning they conspire against your people; they plot against those you cherish.
3 They devise cunning schemes against your people, and consult together against your protected ones.
4 “Come,” they say, “let us destroy them as a nation, so that Israel’s name is remembered no more.”
4 They say, "Come, let us annihilate them from [being] a nation, so that the name of Israel will be remembered no more."
5 With one mind they plot together; they form an alliance against you—
5 For they have consulted together {with a unified purpose}. They have made a covenant against you:
6 the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, of Moab and the Hagrites,
6 the tents of Edom and [the] Ishmaelites, Moab and [the] Hagrites,
7 Byblos, Ammon and Amalek, Philistia, with the people of Tyre.
7 Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, Philistia, with the inhabitants of Tyre.
8 Even Assyria has joined them to reinforce Lot’s descendants.
8 Assyria also has joined with them. They {provide help} to the children of Lot. Selah
9 Do to them as you did to Midian, as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon,
9 Do to them as [you did with] Midian, as [with] Sisera, as [with] Jabin at the wadi of Kishon.
10 who perished at Endor and became like dung on the ground.
10 They were destroyed at En-dor; they became dung for the ground.
11 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
11 Make their leaders like Oreb and Zeeb, and all their chiefs like Zebah and Zalmunna,
12 who said, “Let us take possession of the pasturelands of God.”
12 who said, "Let us take [as] our possession the pastures of God."
13 Make them like tumbleweed, my God, like chaff before the wind.
13 O my God, make them like the tumbleweed, like the chaff before wind.
14 As fire consumes the forest or a flame sets the mountains ablaze,
14 As fire burns a forest, and as a flame sets afire mountains,
15 so pursue them with your tempest and terrify them with your storm.
15 so pursue them with your tempest and terrify them with your storm.
16 Cover their faces with shame, LORD, so that they will seek your name.
16 Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek your name, O Yahweh.
17 May they ever be ashamed and dismayed; may they perish in disgrace.
17 Let them be ashamed and terrified forever, and let them be humiliated and perish
18 Let them know that you, whose name is the LORD— that you alone are the Most High over all the earth.
18 that they may know that you, [whose] name [is] Yahweh, you alone, [are the] Most High over the whole earth.
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