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83:1  This psalm is a song that Asaph wrote. God, do not continue to be silent! Do not remain quiet. Please do something!
83:2  Look! Your enemies are causing trouble. The people who hate you are ready to attack.
83:3  They decide carefully how they will attack your people. They want to hurt the people that you love.
83:4  They say, ‘Come now! We will destroy them. They will no longer be a nation. Nobody will remember the name of Israel any more.’
83:5  They agree together what they will do. They join one another to fight against you.
83:6  Those enemies are Edomites and Ishmaelites, Moabites and Hagrites.
83:7  They also come from Gebal, Ammon and Amalek, Philistia and Tyre.
83:8  Even the Assyrian army has joined with them. They have given strength to Lot's descendants, the Moabites and the Ammonites. Selah.
83:9  God, punish them as you punished Midian. Do what you did to Sisera and Jabin at the River Kishon.
83:10  You destroyed them at Endor. Their bodies remained on the ground, like dirt.
83:11  Do to their leaders what you did to Oreb and Zeeb. Let their rulers die, like Zebah and Zalmunna.
83:12  Those people said, ‘Let us take God's valuable country for ourselves!’
83:13  God, blow them away like dust, like chaff that blows away in the wind!
83:14  Go after them, like a fire that burns both forest and mountains.
83:15  Chase them away with your storms. Frighten them with your strong winds.
83:16  Cause them to be very ashamed, Lord, so that they might turn to you.
83:17  May they always be ashamed and frightened. Let them die with shame!
83:18  Then they will understand that you are the Lord. They will know that you are the Most High God who rules over all the earth.