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
Prayer against Enemies
A song. A psalm of Asaph.#1Ch 16:5,7
1God, do not keep silent.
Do not be deaf, God; do not be quiet.#Ps 28:1; 39:12; 115:5; 135:16; Is 62:1
2See how your enemies make an uproar;
those who hate you have acted arrogantly.#83:2 Lit have lifted their head#Ps 2:1; Is 17:12
3They devise clever schemes against your people;
they conspire against your treasured ones.#Jb 5:12–13; Ps 37:12; 64:2
4They say, “Come, let’s wipe them out as a nation
so that Israel’s name will no longer be remembered.”#Ps 41:5; Jr 11:19
5For they have conspired with one mind;
they form an alliance#83:5 Lit they cut a covenant against you#Ps 2:2 —
6the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,#Gn 25:12–16; Ps 137:7
Moab and the Hagrites,#1Ch 5:10; 2Ch 20:10
7Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek,#Jos 13:5; 1Sm 15:2
Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre.#1Sm 4:1; Ezk 27:3
8Even Assyria has joined them;
they lend support#83:8 Lit they are an arm to the sons of Lot.#83:8 = Moab and Ammon#2Kg 15:19Selah
9Deal with them as you did with Midian,#Nm 31:7; Jdg 7:1–24
as you did with Sisera
and Jabin at the Kishon River.#Jdg 4:7; 5:21
10They were destroyed at En-dor;
they became manure for the ground.#Jr 9:22; 16:4; 25:33
11Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb,#Jdg 7:25; 8:3
and all their tribal leaders like Zebah and Zalmunna,#Jdg 8:5–21
12who said, “Let’s seize God’s pastures for ourselves.”#2Ch 20:11
13Make them like tumbleweed, my God,
like straw before the wind.#Jb 21:18; Ps 1:4; Is 17:13
14As fire burns a forest,
as a flame blazes through mountains,#Is 9:18; 10:16–19
15so pursue them with your tempest
and terrify them with your storm.#Jb 9:17; Ps 58:9
16Cover their faces with shame
so that they will seek your name, Lord.#Ps 35:26; 109:29; 132:18
17Let them be put to shame and terrified forever;
let them perish in disgrace.#Ps 35:4; 70:2
18May they know that you alone —
whose name is the Lord —
are the Most High over the whole earth.#Ps 97:9
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