Third Millennium Bible TMB
GOD'S WORD Translation GW
1 <<A song or Psalm of Asaph.>> Keep Thou not silence, O God; hold not Thy peace, and be not still, O God.
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O God, do not remain silent. Do not turn a deaf ear to me. Do not keep quiet, O God.
2 For lo, Thine enemies make a tumult, and they that hate Thee have lifted up the head.
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Look, your enemies are in an uproar. Those who hate you hold their heads high.
3 They have taken crafty counsel against Thy people, and consulted against Thy hidden ones.
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They make plans in secret against your people and plot together against those you treasure.
4 They have said, "Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance."
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They say, "Let's wipe out their nation so that the name of Israel will no longer be remembered."
5 For they have consulted together with one accord; they are confederate against Thee:
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They agree completely on their plan. They form an alliance against you:
6 the tabernacles of Edom and the Ishmaelites, of Moab and the Hagarites,
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the tents from Edom and Ishmael, Moab and Hagar,
7 Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre.
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Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia, along with those who live in Tyre.
8 Assyria also has joined with them; they have helped the children of Lot. Selah
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Even Assyria has joined them. They helped the descendants of Lot. Selah
9 Do unto them as unto the Midianites, as to Sisera, as to Jabin at the Brook of Kishon,
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Do to them what you did to Midian, to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River.
10 who perished at Endor; they became as dung for the earth.
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They were destroyed at Endor. They became manure to fertilize the ground.
11 Make their nobles like Oreb and like Zeeb, yea, all their princes as Zebah and as Zalmunna,
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Treat their influential people as you treated Oreb and Zeeb. Treat all their leaders like Zebah and Zalmunna.
12 who said, "Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession."
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They said, "Let's take God's pasturelands for ourselves."
13 O my God, make them like a wheel, as the stubble before the wind.
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O my God, blow them away like tumbleweeds, like husks in the wind.
14 As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire,
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Pursue them with your storms, and terrify them with your windstorms
15 so persecute them with Thy tempest, and make them afraid with Thy storm.
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the way fire burns a forest and flames set mountains on fire.
16 Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek Thy name, O LORD.
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Let their faces blush with shame, O LORD, so that they must look to you for help.
17 Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame and perish,
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Let them be put to shame and terrified forever. Let them die in disgrace
18 that men may know that Thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the Most High over all the earth.
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so that they must acknowledge you. Your name is the LORD. You alone are the Most High God of the whole earth.
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