[1] O God, don't sit idly by, silent and inactive when we pray. Answer us! Deliver us! [2] Don't you hear the tumult and commotion of your enemies? Don't you see what they are doing, these proud men who hate the Lord? [3] They are full of craftiness and plot against your people, laying plans to slay your precious ones. [4] "Come," they say, "and let us wipe out Israel as a nation-we will destroy the very memory of her existence." [5] This was their unanimous decision at their summit conference-they signed a treaty to ally themselves against Almighty God- [6] these Ishmaelites and Edomites and Moabites and Hagrites; [7] people from the lands of Gebal, Ammon, Amalek, Philistia and Tyre; [8] Assyria has joined them too, and is allied with the descendants of Lot. [9] Do to them as once you did to Midian, or as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon, [10] and as you did to your enemies at Endor, whose decaying corpses fertilized the soil. [11] Make their mighty nobles die as Oreb did, and Zeeb; let all their princes die like Zebah and Zalmunna, [12] who said, "Let us seize for our own use these pasturelands of God!" [13] O my God, blow them away like dust; like chaff before the wind- [14] as a forest fire that roars across a mountain. [15] Chase them with your fiery storms, tempests, and tornados. [16] Utterly disgrace them until they recognize your power and name, O Lord. [17] Make them failures in everything they do; let them be ashamed and terrified [18] until they learn that you alone, Jehovah, are the God above all gods in supreme charge of all the earth.
