[1] God, don't keep quiet! Don't close your ears! Please say something, God. [2] Your enemies are getting ready to do something. Those who hate you will soon attack. [3] They are making secret plans against your people. Your enemies are discussing plans against the people you love. [4] They say, "Come, let us destroy them completely. Then no one will ever again remember the name Israel." [5] God, they have all joined together. They have united against you. [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. [8] Even the Assyrians have joined them. They have made Lot's descendants very powerful. Selah [9] God, defeat them just as you defeated Midian. Do what you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River. [10] You destroyed the enemy at Endor, and their bodies rotted on the ground. [11] Punish their leaders as you did Oreb and Zeeb. Do what you did to Zebah and Zalmunna. [12] They said, "Let's make this land our own- these fields of grass that belong to God!" [13] Make them like weeds blown by the wind. Scatter them the way wind scatters straw. [14] Be like a fire that destroys a forest or like a flame that sets the hills on fire. [15] Chase them away with your blasts of wind; frighten them with your storms. [16] LORD, cover them with shame until they come to you for help. [17] May they be forever ashamed and afraid. Disgrace and defeat them. [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!
