| Chapter 83 |
1 | {A Song; a Psalm of Asaph.} O God, keep not silence; hold not thy peace, and be not still, O łGod:
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2 | For behold, thine enemies make a tumult; and they that hate thee lift up the head.
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3 | They take crafty counsel against thy people, and consult against thy hidden ones:
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4 | They say, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, and let the name of Israel be mentioned no more.
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5 | For they have consulted together with one heart: they have made an alliance together against thee.
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6 | The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagarites;
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7 | Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia, with the inhabitants of Tyre;
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8 | Asshur also is joined with them: they are an arm to the sons of Lot. Selah.
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9 | Do unto them as to Midian; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the torrent of Kishon:
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10 | Who were destroyed at Endor; they became as dung for the ground.
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11 | Make their nobles as Oreb and as Zeeb; and all their chiefs as Zebah and as Zalmunna.
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12 | For they have said, Let us take to ourselves God's dwelling-places in possession.
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13 | O my God, make them like a whirling thing, like stubble before the wind.
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14 | As fire burneth a forest, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire,
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15 | So pursue them with thy tempest, and terrify them with thy whirlwind.
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16 | Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek thy name, O Jehovah.
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17 | Let them be put to shame and be dismayed for ever, and let them be confounded and perish:
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18 | That they may know that thou alone, whose name is Jehovah, art the Most High over all the earth.
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