1. A song, a psalm of Asaph.
2. O God, do not be silent; do not hold aloof; do not be quiet, O God!
3. For Your enemies rage, Your foes assert themselves.
4. They plot craftily against Your people, take counsel against Your treasured ones.
5. They say, "Let us wipe them out as a nation; Israel's name will be mentioned no more."
6. Unanimous in their counsel they have made an alliance against You --
7. the clans of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites,
8. Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
9. Assyria too joins forces with them; they give support to the sons of Lot. Selah.
10. Deal with them as You did with Midian, with Sisera, with Jabin, at the brook Kishon --
11. who were destroyed at En-dor, who became dung for the field.
12. Treat their great men like Oreb and Zeeb, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
13. who said, "Let us take the meadows of God as our possession."
14. O my God, make them like thistledown, like stubble driven by the wind.
15. As a fire burns a forest, as flames scorch the hills,
16. pursue them with Your tempest, terrify them with Your storm.
17. Cover their faces with shame so that they seek Your name, O LORD.
18. May they be frustrated and terrified, disgraced and doomed forever.
19. May they know that Your name, Yours alone, is the LORD, supreme over all the earth.
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