Psaume 83

Do not keep silent, God

¹A song. A psalm of Asaph. ²God, do not rest! \q Do not keep silent, and do not sit idle, God! ³Look, your enemies are in an uproar; \q those who hate you hold their heads high. ⁴They are plotting slyly against your people \q and conspiring against those you treasure. ⁵They say, “Come, let us wipe them out so they are no longer a nation; \q let no one ever again remember the name of Israel.” ⁶They have agreed together with one mind; \q they are making a treaty against you, ⁷Edom’s tent-dwellers, the Ishmaelites, \q Moab and the Hagrites, ⁸Gebal, Ammon and Amalek, \q Philistia and the people who live in Tyre. ⁹Assyria too has joined them; \q they lend their strength to the descendants of Lot. Selah ¹⁰Treat them the way you treated Midian, \q the way you treated Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon valley, ¹¹who were wiped out at Endor \q and became manure on the ground. ¹²Deal with their nobles as with Oreb and Zeeb, \q and with all their chiefs as with Zebah and Zalmunna, ¹³who said, \q “Let us take God’s pasturelands as our own.” ¹⁴My God, make them like a tumbleweed spinning away, \q like husks driven by the wind. ¹⁵As a fire eats through a forest, \q as flames set the mountainsides alight, ¹⁶so hunt them down with your storm \q and fill them with terror by your gale. ¹⁷Load their faces with disgrace, \q so that they come seeking your name, LORD. ¹⁸May they be shamed and terrified for all time; \q may they be disgraced and come to ruin, ¹⁹and let them come to know that your name is the LORD, \q that only you are Most High over the whole earth.