[1] God, don’t keep silent. Don’t keep silent, and don’t be still, God. [2] For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you have lifted up their heads. [3] They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones. [4] “Come,” they say, “let’s destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.” [5] For they have conspired together with one mind. They form an alliance against you. [6] The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagrites; [7] Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre; [8] Assyria also is joined with them. They have helped the children of Lot. Selah. [9] Do to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon; [10] who perished at Endor, who became as dung for the earth. [11] Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna, [12] who said, “Let’s take possession of God’s pasture lands.” [13] My God, make them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind. [14] As the fire that burns the forest, as the flame that sets the mountains on fire, [15] so pursue them with your tempest, and terrify them with your storm. [16] Fill their faces with confusion, that they may seek your name, Yahweh. [17] Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish; [18] that they may know that you alone, whose name is Yahweh, are the Most High over all the earth.
