83:1  O God, do not keep silent;
be not quiet, O God, be not still.

83:2  See how your enemies are astir,
how your foes rear their heads.

83:3  With cunning they conspire against your people;
they plot against those you cherish.

83:4  "Come," they say, "let us destroy them as a nation,
that the name of Israel be remembered no more."

83:5  With one mind they plot together;
they form an alliance against you-

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

83:7  Gebal, Ammon and Amalek,
Philistia, with the people of Tyre.

83:8  Even Assyria has joined them
to lend strength to the descendants of Lot.
Selah

83:9  Do to them as you did to Midian,
as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon,

83:10  who perished at Endor
and became like refuse on the ground.

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

83:12  who said, "Let us take possession
of the pasturelands of God."

83:13  Make them like tumbleweed, O my God,
like chaff before the wind.

83:14  As fire consumes the forest
or a flame sets the mountains ablaze,

83:15  so pursue them with your tempest
and terrify them with your storm.

83:16  Cover their faces with shame
so that men will seek your name, O LORD.

83:17  May they ever be ashamed and dismayed;
may they perish in disgrace.

83:18  Let them know that you, whose name is the LORD—
that you alone are the Most High over all the earth.