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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Psalm 83
A song. A psalm of Asaph.
1God, don’t be silent!
Don’t be quiet or sit still, God,
2because—look!—your enemies are growling;
those who hate you are acting arrogantly.
3They concoct crafty plans against your own people;
they plot against the people you favor.
4“Come on,” they say, “let’s wipe them out as a nation!
Let the name Israel be remembered no more!”
5They plot with a single-minded heart;
they make a covenant against you.
6They are the clans of Edom and the Ishmaelites,
Moab and the Hagrites,
7Gebal, Ammon, Amalek,
Philistia along with the citizens of Tyre.
8Assyria too has joined them—
they are the strong arm for Lot’s children. Selah
9Do to them what you did to Midian,
to Sisera, and to Jabin at the Kishon River.
10They were destroyed at Endor;
they became fertilizer for the ground.
11Make their officials like Oreb and Zeeb,
all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna—
12those who said, “Let’s take God’s pastures for ourselves.”
13My God, make them like tumbleweeds,
like chaff blown by wind.
14Just like a fire consumes a forest,
just like flames set mountains ablaze,
15pursue them with your storm,
terrify them with your hurricane.
16Cover their faces with shame, LORD, so that they might seek your name.
17Let them be shamed and terrified forever.
Let them die in disgrace.
18Let them know that you—
your name is the LORD!—
you alone are Most High over all the earth.
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