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83:1  One of Asaph’s songs of praise. God, don’t keep quiet! Don’t close your ears! Please say something, God.
83:2  Your enemies are getting ready to do something. Those who hate you will soon attack.
83:3  They are making secret plans against your people. Your enemies are discussing plans against the people you love.
83:4  They say, “Come, let us destroy them completely. Then no one will ever again remember the name Israel.”
83:5  God, they have all joined together. They have united against you.
83:6  Their army includes the Edomites, Ishmaelites, Moabites, and Hagar’s descendants, the people of Byblos, Ammon, and Amalek, the Philistines, and the people of Tyre.
83:7  Their army includes the Edomites, Ishmaelites, Moabites, and Hagar’s descendants, the people of Byblos, Ammon, and Amalek, the Philistines, and the people of Tyre.
83:8  Even the Assyrians have joined them. They have made Lot’s descendants very powerful. Selah
83:9  God, defeat them just as you defeated Midian. Do what you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River.
83:10  You destroyed the enemy at Endor, and their bodies rotted on the ground.
83:11  Punish their leaders as you did Oreb and Zeeb. Do what you did to Zebah and Zalmunna.
83:12  They said, “Let’s make this land our own— these fields of grass that belong to God!”
83:13  Make them like weeds blown by the wind. Scatter them the way wind scatters straw.
83:14  Be like a fire that destroys a forest or like a flame that sets the hills on fire.
83:15  Chase them away with your blasts of wind; frighten them with your storms.
83:16  Lord, cover them with shame until they come to you for help.
83:17  May they be forever ashamed and afraid. Disgrace and defeat them.
83:18  Then they will know that your name is Yahweh— that you alone are the Lord. They will know that you are God Most High, ruler over all the earth!