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1 O God, do not be silent! Do not be deaf. Do not be quiet, O God.
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God, don't be silent! Don't be quiet or sit still, God,
2 Don’t you hear the uproar of your enemies? Don’t you see that your arrogant enemies are rising up?
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because—look!—your enemies are growling; those who hate you are acting arrogantly.
3 They devise crafty schemes against your people; they conspire against your precious ones.
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They concoct crafty plans against your own people; they plot against the people you favor.
4 “Come,” they say, “let us wipe out Israel as a nation. We will destroy the very memory of its existence.”
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"Come on," they say, "let's wipe them out as a nation! Let the name Israel be remembered no more!"
5 Yes, this was their unanimous decision. They signed a treaty as allies against you—
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They plot with a single-minded heart; they make a covenant against you.
6 these Edomites and Ishmaelites; Moabites and Hagrites;
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They are the clans of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites,
7 Gebalites, Ammonites, and Amalekites; and people from Philistia and Tyre.
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Gebal, Ammon, Amalek, Philistia along with the citizens of Tyre.
8 Assyria has joined them, too, and is allied with the descendants of Lot. Interlude
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Assyria too has joined them— they are the strong arm for Lot's children. Selah
9 Do to them as you did to the Midianites and as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River.
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Do to them what you did to Midian, to Sisera, and to Jabin at the Kishon River.
10 They were destroyed at Endor, and their decaying corpses fertilized the soil.
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They were destroyed at Endor; they become fertilizer for the ground.
11 Let their mighty nobles die as Oreb and Zeeb did. Let all their princes die like Zebah and Zalmunna,
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Make their officials like Oreb and Zeeb, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna—
12 for they said, “Let us seize for our own use these pasturelands of God!”
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those who said, "Let's take God's pastures for ourselves."
13 O my God, scatter them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind!
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My God, make them like tumbleweeds, like chaff blown by wind.
14 As a fire burns a forest and as a flame sets mountains ablaze,
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Just like a fire consumes a forest, just like flames set mountains ablaze,
15 chase them with your fierce storm; terrify them with your tempest.
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pursue them with your storm, terrify them with your hurricane.
16 Utterly disgrace them until they submit to your name, O LORD .
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Cover their faces with shame, LORD, so that they might seek your name.
17 Let them be ashamed and terrified forever. Let them die in disgrace.
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Let them be shamed and terrified forever. Let them die in disgrace.
18 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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Let them know that you— your name is the LORD!— you alone are Most High over all the earth.
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