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v1
O God, do not rest silently. Do not keep silent or be still, O God.
v2
For look, your enemies roar, and those who hate you have lifted their head.
v3
They devise cunning schemes ^[Hebrew “scheme”] against your people, and consult together against your protected ones. ^[Or “your treasured ones”]
v4
They say, “Come, let us annihilate them from being a nation, so that the name of Israel will be remembered no more.”
v5
For they have consulted together with a unified purpose. ^[Literally “with a heart together”] They have made a covenant against you:
v6
the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites,
v7
Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, Philistia, with the inhabitants of Tyre.
v8
Assyria also has joined with them. They provide help ^[Literally “they have become an arm for”] to the children of Lot. Selah
v9
Do to them as you did with Midian, as with Sisera, as with Jabin at the wadi of Kishon.
v10
They were destroyed at En-dor; they became dung for the ground.
v11
Make their leaders like Oreb and Zeeb, and all their chiefs like Zebah and Zalmunna,
v12
who said, “Let us take as our possession the pastures of God.”
v13
O my God, make them like the tumbleweed, like the chaff before wind.
v14
As fire burns a forest, and as a flame sets afire mountains,
v15
so pursue them with your tempest and terrify them with your storm.
v16
Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek your name, O Yahweh.
v17
Let them be ashamed and terrified forever, and let them be humiliated and perish
v18
that they may know that you, whose name is Yahweh, you alone, are the Most High over the whole earth.