83:1  KEEP NOT silence, O God; hold not Your peace or be still, O God.

83:2  For, behold, Your enemies are in tumult, and those who hate You have raised their heads.

83:3  They lay crafty schemes against Your people and consult together against Your hidden {and} precious ones.

83:4  They have said, Come, and let us wipe them out as a nation; let the name of Israel be in remembrance no more.

83:5  For they have consulted together with one accord {and} one heart; against You they make a covenant--

83:6  The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, of Moab and the Hagrites,

83:7  Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, the Philistines, with the inhabitants of Tyre.

83:8  Assyria also has joined with them; they have helped the children of Lot [the Ammonites and the Moabites] {and} have been an arm to them. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!

83:9  Do to them as [You did to] the Midianites, as to Sisera and Jabin at the brook of Kishon,

83:10  Who perished at Endor, who became like manure for the earth.

83:11  Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, yes, all their princes as Zebah and Zalmunna,

83:12  Who say, Let us take possession for ourselves of the pastures of God.

83:13  O my God, make them like whirling dust, like stubble {or} chaff before the wind!

83:14  As fire consumes the forest, and as the flame sets the mountains ablaze,

83:15  So pursue {and} afflict them with Your tempest and terrify them with Your tornado {or} hurricane.

83:16  Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek, inquire for, {and} insistently require Your name, O Lord.

83:17  Let them be put to shame and dismayed forever; yes, let them be put to shame and perish,

83:18  That they may know that You, Whose name alone is the Lord, are the Most High over all the earth.