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 for the Defeat of Israel's Enemies#Ps 83 Hebrew title: A psalm by Asaph; a song.
1O God, do not keep silent;
do not be still, do not be quiet!
2Look! Your enemies are in revolt,
and those who hate you are rebelling.
3They are making secret plans against your people;
they are plotting against those you protect.
4“Come,” they say, “let us destroy their nation,
so that Israel will be forgotten for ever.”
5They agree on their plan
and form an alliance against you:
6the people of Edom and the Ishmaelites;
the people of Moab and the Hagrites;
7the people of Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek,
and of Philistia and Tyre.
8Assyria has also joined them
as a strong ally of the Ammonites and Moabites, the descendants of Lot.
9 #
Judg 4.6–22; 7.1–23 Do to them what you did to the Midianites,
and to Sisera and Jabin at the River Kishon.
10You defeated them at Endor,
and their bodies rotted on the ground.
11 #
Judg 7.25; 8.12 Do to their leaders what you did to Oreb and Zeeb;
defeat all their rulers as you did Zebah and Zalmunna,
12who said, “We will take for our own
the land that belongs to God.”
13Scatter them like dust, O God,
like straw blown away by the wind.
14As fire burns the forest,
as flames set the hills on fire,
15chase them away with your storm
and terrify them with your fierce winds.
16Cover their faces with shame, O LORD,
and make them acknowledge your power.
17May they be defeated and terrified for ever;
may they die in complete disgrace.
18May they know that you alone are the LORD,
supreme ruler over all the earth.
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