Psalms 83
83
God, Don’t Be Silent # 83 The historical background to this psalm may be found in 2 Chron. 20:14–36.
Asaph’s poetic song
1God, you have to do something! # 83:1 Both the Aramaic and the Septuagint add a line in verse 1: “God, who is like you?” Don’t be silent and just sit idly by.
2-3Can’t you see what they’re doing?
All your enemies are stirred up in an uproar!
They despise you, Lord.
In their defiant arrogance they rise up
to host their secret council against your people.
They conspire together to come and harm
your cherished ones—your hidden ones.
4Our enemies keep saying,
“Now is the time to wipe Israel off the map.
We’ll destroy even the memory of her existence!”
5They’ve made their pact, consulting and conspiring,
aligning together in their covenant against God.
6-8All the sons of Ishmael, the desert sheiks and the nomadic tribes, Amalekites, Canaanites, Moabites,
and all the nations that surround us,
Philistines, Phoenicians, Gadarenes, and Samaritans; # 83:6–8 As translated from the Aramaic. The Greek is “It includes the tents of Edom and Ishmael [Palestinians and those of southern Jordan], Moab [Palestinians and those of central Jordan] and Hagrites [Egyptians or possibly northern Jordanians], Gebal [Byblos and northern Lebanon], Ammon [Palestinians and northern Jordanians] and Amalek [Arabs of the Sinai Peninsula], Philistia [Gaza], and the inhabitants of Tyre [southern Lebanese]. Even Assyria [Syrians and northern Iraqis] has become their ally as an arm [military might] for the sons of Lot.” This comprises virtually every neighbor surrounding Israel.
allied together they’re ready to attack!
Pause in his presence
9Do to them all what you did to the Midianites
who were defeated by Gideon.
Or what you did to Sisera and Jabin
when Deborah and Barak defeated them by the Kishon River.
10Do to your enemies what you did at Endor,
whose rotting corpses fertilized the land.
11-12Repeat history, God! Make all their “noble ones”
die like Oreb, Zebah, and Zalmunna, who said in their pride,
“We will seize God’s people along with all their pleasant lands!”
13Blow them away, God, like straw in the wind,
like a tumbleweed in the wilderness!
14Burn them up like a raging fire roaring down the mountainside;
consume them all until only charred sticks remain!
15Chase them away like before a mighty storm and terrifying tempest.
16O Lord, disgrace them until their faces fill with shame,
and make them acknowledge the glory of your name.
17Make them utter failures in everything they do
until they perish in total disgrace and humiliation,
18so they will know that you, and you alone,
are Yahweh, the only Most High God exalted over all the earth!
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A Prayer Against the Enemies
A song of Asaph.
1God, do not keep quiet.
God, do not be silent or still.
2Your enemies are making plans.
Those who hate you are getting ready to attack.
3They are making plans against your people.
They plan to hurt those you love.
4They say, “Come, let’s destroy them as a nation.
Then no one will remember the name ‘Israel’ anymore.”
5They are united in their plan.
These have made an agreement against you:
6the families of Edom and the Ishmaelites,
Moab and the Hagrites,
7the people of Byblos, Ammon, Amalek,
Philistia and Tyre.
8Even Assyria has joined them
to help Ammon and Moab, the descendants of Lot. Selah
9God, do to them what you did to Midian.
Do what you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River.
10They died at Endor.
Their bodies rotted on the ground.
11Do to their important leaders what you did to Oreb and Zeeb.
Do to their princes what you did to Zebah and Zalmunna.
12They said, “Let’s take for ourselves
the pasturelands that belong to God.”
13My God, make them like the tumbleweed,
like chaff blown away by the wind.
14Be like a fire that burns a forest
or like flames that blaze through the hills.
15Chase them with your storm.
Frighten them with your wind.
16Cover them with shame.
Then people will look for you, Lord.
17Make them afraid and ashamed forever.
Disgrace them and destroy them.
18Then they will know that you are the Lord.
They will know that only you are God Most High over all the earth.
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