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83:1  Keep not silence, O God; hold not Your peace or be still, O God.
83:2  For, behold, Your enemies are in tumult, and those who hate You have raised their heads.
83:3  They lay crafty schemes against Your people and consult together against Your hidden and precious ones.
83:4  They have said, Come, and let us wipe them out as a nation; let the name of Israel be in remembrance no more.
83:5  For they have consulted together with one accord and one heart; against You they make a covenant—
83:6  The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, of Moab and the Hagrites,
83:7  Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, the Philistines, with the inhabitants of Tyre.
83:8  Assyria also has joined with them; they have helped the children of Lot [the Ammonites and the Moabites] and have been an arm to them. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!
83:9  Do to them as [You did to] the Midianites, as to Sisera and Jabin at the brook of Kishon,
83:10  Who perished at Endor, who became like manure for the earth.
83:11  Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, yes, all their princes as Zebah and Zalmunna,
83:12  Who say, Let us take possession for ourselves of the pastures of God.
83:13  O my God, make them like whirling dust, like stubble or chaff before the wind!
83:14  As fire consumes the forest, and as the flame sets the mountains ablaze,
83:15  So pursue and afflict them with Your tempest and terrify them with Your tornado or hurricane.
83:16  Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek, inquire for, and insistently require Your name, O Lord.
83:17  Let them be put to shame and dismayed forever; yes, let them be put to shame and perish,
83:18  That they may know that You, Whose name alone is the Lord, are the Most High over all the earth.