1 God, don’t keep silent.

Don’t keep silent,

and don’t be still, God.

2 For, behold, your enemies are stirred up.

Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.

3 They conspire with cunning against your people.

They plot against your cherished ones.

4 "Come," they say, "let’s destroy them as a nation,

that the name of Israel may be remembered no more."

5 For they have conspired together with one mind.

They form an alliance against you.

6 The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites;

Moab, and the Hagrites;

7 Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek;

Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;

8 Assyria also is joined with them.

They have helped the children of Lot. Selah.

9 Do to them as you did to Midian,

as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon;

10 who perished at Endor,

who became as dung for the earth.

11 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb,

yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,

12 who said, "Let’s take possession of God’s pasture lands."

13 My God, make them like tumbleweed,

like chaff before the wind.

14 As the fire that burns the forest,

as the flame that sets the mountains on fire,

15 so pursue them with your tempest,

and terrify them with your storm.

16 Fill their faces with confusion,

that they may seek your name, Yahweh.

17 Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever.

Yes, let them be confounded and perish;

18 that they may know that you alone, whose name is Yahweh,

are the Most High over all the earth.

1 A Song [or] Psalm of Asaph. Do not keep silence, O God; do not hold thy peace, and do not be still, O God.

2 For, behold, thine enemies make a tumult, and those that hate thee have lifted up their head.

3 They have taken prudent counsel in secret against thy people and consulted against thy hidden ones.

4 They have said, Come and let us cut them off from [being] a people that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.

5 Therefore they have consulted together with one consent; they are confederate against thee:

6 The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; of Moab and the Hagarenes;

7 Gebal and Ammon and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;

8 Assur also is joined with them: they are an arm unto the sons of Lot. Selah.

9 Do unto them as [unto] the Midianites, as [to] Sisera, as [to] Jabin, at the brook of Kison,

10 [who] perished at Endor; they became [as] dung for the earth.

11 Make them and their captains like Oreb and like Zeeb; all their princes as Zebah and as Zalmunna:

12 Who have said, Let us inherit for ourselves the habitations of God.

13 O my God, make them like a whirlwind, as the stubble before the wind.

14 As the fire burns a wood and as the flame sets the mountains on fire

15 so persecute them with thy tempest and make them afraid with thy whirlwind.

16 Fill their faces with shame that they may seek thy name, O LORD.

17 Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; let them be put to shame and perish

18 That they may know that thou, whose name alone [is] LORD, [art] the most high over all the earth.: