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| The Book of Psalms. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
| Book III |
| LXXXIII |
| God Implored to Confound His Enemies |
| A Song, a Psalm of Asaph. |
| [1] | O GOD, keep not thou silence: Hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God. |
| [2] | For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult; And they that hate thee have lifted up the head. |
| [3] | They take crafty counsel against thy people, And consult together against thy hidden ones. |
| [4] | They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; That the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. |
| [5] | For they have consulted together with one consent; Against thee do they make a covenant: |
| [6] | The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagarenes; 1 |
| [7] | Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre: |
| [8] | Assyria also is joined with them; They have helped 2 the children of Lot. [Selah |
| [9] | Do thou unto them as unto Midian, As to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon; |
| [10] | Who perished at En-dor, Who became as dung for the earth. |
| [11] | Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb; Yea, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna; |
| [12] | Who said, Let us take to ourselves in possession The habitations 3 of God. |
| [13] | O my God, make them like the whirling dust; As stubble before the wind. |
| [14] | As the fire that burneth the forest, And as the flame that setteth the mountains on fire, |
| [15] | So pursue them with thy tempest, And terrify them with thy storm. |
| [16] | Fill their faces with confusion, That they may seek thy name, O Jehovah. |
| [17] | Let them be put to shame and dismayed for ever; Yea, let them be confounded and perish; |
| [18] | That they may know that thou 4 alone, whose name is Jehovah, Art the Most High over all the earth. |
| Note 1. Or, Hagrites. See 1 Chr. 5. 10. [back] |
| Note 2. Heb. been an arm to the children of Lot. [back] |
| Note 3. Or, pastures. [back] |
| Note 4. Or, thou, whose name alone is Jehovah, art &c. [back] |
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