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.
1O God#GodHebrew: Elohim keep not silence; hold not thy peace, and be not still, O ·God#GodHebrew: El 2For behold, thine enemies make a tumult; and they that hate thee lift up the head. 3They take crafty counsel against thy people, and consult against thy hidden ones: 4They say, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, and let the name of Israel be mentioned no more. 5For they have consulted together with one heart: they have made an alliance together against thee. 6The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagarites; 7Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia, with the inhabitants of Tyre; 8Asshur also is joined with them: they are an arm to the sons of Lot. Selah.
9Do unto them as to Midian; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the torrent of Kishon: 10Who were destroyed at Endor; they became as dung for the ground. 11Make their nobles as Oreb and as Zeeb; and all their chiefs as Zebah and as Zalmunna. 12For they have said, Let us take to ourselves God's#GodHebrew: Elohim dwelling-places in possession. 13O my God#GodHebrew: Elohim make them like a whirling thing, like stubble before the wind. 14As fire burneth a forest, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire, 15So pursue them with thy tempest, and terrify them with thy whirlwind. 16Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek thy name, O Jehovah. 17Let them be put to shame and be dismayed for ever, and let them be confounded and perish: 18That they may know that thou alone, whose name is Jehovah, art the Most High over all the earth.
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First published in 1890. This edition is maintained by the British and Foreign Bible Society.