Psalms 83

¹O God, keep not thou silence:

²For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult;

³They take crafty counsel against thy people,

⁴They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation;

⁵For they have consulted together with one consent;

⁶The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites;

⁷Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek;

⁸Assyria also is joined with them;

⁹Do thou unto them as unto Midian,

¹⁰Who perished at Endor,

¹¹Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb;

¹²Who said, Let us take to ourselves in possession

¹³O my God, make them like the whirling dust;

¹⁴As the fire that burneth the forest,

¹⁵So pursue them with thy tempest,

¹⁶Fill their faces with confusion,

¹⁷Let them be put to shame and dismayed for ever;

¹⁸That they may know that thou alone, whose name is Jehovah,