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 song. A psalm of Asaph.
1God, please do not stay silent! You can't remain unmoved! God, you must not keep quiet!
2Can't you hear the roars of your enemies? Can't you see how those who hate you are defiantly lifting up their heads?
3They invent cunning plans to conspire against your people; they plot against those you treasure.
4They say, “Come on! Let's destroy them as a nation so the name ‘Israel’ will be completely forgotten.”
5They all agree in their conspiracy; they've made a treaty together to attack you—
6the people of Edom, the Ishmaelites, Moab, and the Hagirites;
7the people of Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, Philistia, and the inhabitants of Tyre.
8Assyria too has joined them, allied with the descendants of Lot. Selah.
9Do to them what you did to Midian, what you did to Sisera and Jabin#83:9. Sisera and Jabin: see Judges 4. at the Kishon River.
10They were destroyed at Endor and became like manure to fertilize the ground.
11Make their leaders like Oreb and Zeeb; all their rulers like Zebah and Zalmunna,#83:11. Oreb and Zeeb; Zebah and Zalmunna: see Judges 6 and Judges 7.
12for they said, “Let's take the pastures of God for ourselves!”
13My God, make them like whirling tumbleweeds, chaff blown away by the wind.
14Just like fire that burns the forest, a flame that sets fire to the mountains,
15in the same way chase them down with your storm, terrify them with your whirlwind.
16Shame them in defeat#83:16. Literally, “fill their faces with shame.” so that they come to you, Lord!
17Make them ashamed, terrify them forever so that they die in disgrace.
18Let them understand that you alone, called the Lord, are the Most High who rules over all the earth.
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