New Living Translation NLT
Young's Literal Translation YLT
1 O God, do not be silent! Do not be deaf. Do not be quiet, 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 Don’t you hear the uproar of your enemies? Don’t you see that your arrogant enemies are rising up?
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For, lo, Thine enemies do roar, And those hating Thee have lifted up the head,
3 They devise crafty schemes against your people; they conspire against your precious ones.
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Against Thy people they take crafty counsel, And consult against Thy hidden ones.
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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They have said, `Come, And we cut them off from [being] a nation, And the name of Israel is not remembered any more.'
5 Yes, this was their unanimous decision. They signed a treaty as allies against you—
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For they consulted in heart together, Against Thee a covenant they make,
6 these Edomites and Ishmaelites; Moabites and Hagrites;
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Tents of Edom, and Ishmaelites, Moab, and the Hagarenes,
7 Gebalites, Ammonites, and Amalekites; and people from Philistia and Tyre.
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Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia with inhabitants of Tyre,
8 Assyria has joined them, too, and is allied with the descendants of Lot. Interlude
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Asshur also is joined with them, They have been an arm to sons of Lot. 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 as [to] Midian, As [to] Sisera, as [to] Jabin, at the stream Kishon.
10 They were destroyed at Endor, and their decaying corpses fertilized the soil.
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They were destroyed at Endor, They were dung 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 nobles as Oreb and as Zeeb, And as Zebah and Zalmunna all their princes,
12 for they said, “Let us seize for our own use these pasturelands of God!”
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Who have said, `Let us occupy for ourselves The comely places of God.'
13 O my God, scatter them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind!
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O my God, make them as a rolling thing, As stubble before wind.
14 As a fire burns a forest and as a flame sets mountains ablaze,
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As a fire doth burn a forest, And as a flame setteth hills on fire,
15 chase them with your fierce storm; terrify them with your tempest.
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So dost Thou pursue them with Thy whirlwind, And with Thy hurricane troublest them.
16 Utterly disgrace them until they submit to your name, O LORD .
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Fill their faces [with] shame, And they seek Thy name, O Jehovah.
17 Let them be ashamed and terrified forever. Let them die in disgrace.
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They are ashamed and troubled for ever, Yea, they are confounded and lost.
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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And they know that Thou -- (Thy name [is] Jehovah -- by Thyself,) [Art] the Most High over all the earth!
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