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 by Asaph.
1O God, do not remain silent.
Do not turn a deaf ear to me.
Do not keep quiet, O God.
2Look, your enemies are in an uproar.
Those who hate you hold their heads high.
3They make plans in secret against your people
and plot together against those you treasure.
4They say, “Let’s wipe out their nation
so that the name of Israel will no longer be remembered.”
5They agree completely on their plan.
They form an alliance against you:
6the tents from Edom and Ishmael,
Moab and Hagar,
7Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek,
Philistia, along with those who live in Tyre.
8Even Assyria has joined them.
They helped the descendants of Lot. Selah
9Do to them what you did to Midian,
to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River.
10They were destroyed at Endor.
They became manure to fertilize the ground.
11Treat their influential people as you treated Oreb and Zeeb.
Treat all their leaders like Zebah and Zalmunna.
12They said, “Let’s take God’s pasturelands for ourselves.”
13O my God, blow them away like tumbleweeds,#83:13 Or “whirling dust.”
like husks in the wind.
14Pursue them with your storms,
and terrify them with your windstorms
15the way fire burns a forest
and flames set mountains on fire.#83:15 Verse 15 (in Hebrew) has been placed in front of verse 14 to express the complex Hebrew sentence structure more clearly in English.
16Let their faces blush with shame, O Lord,
so that they must look to you for help.
17Let them be put to shame and terrified forever.
Let them die in disgrace
18so that they must acknowledge you.
Your name is the Lord.
You alone are the Most High God of the whole earth.
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