[1] O God, do not be silent. Do not ignore us. Do not be inactive, O God. [2] For look, your enemies are making a commotion; those who hate you are hostile. [3] They carefully plot against your people, and make plans to harm the ones you cherish. [4] They say, "Come on, let's annihilate them so they are no longer a nation. Then the name of Israel will be remembered no more." [5] Yes, they devise a unified strategy; they form an alliance against you. [6] It includes the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites, [7] Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia and the inhabitants of Tyre. [8] Even Assyria has allied with them, lending its strength to the descendants of Lot. (Selah) [9] Do to them as you did to Midian-as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River. [10] They were destroyed at Endor; their corpses were like manure on the ground. [11] Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, and all their rulers like Zebah and Zalmunna, [12] who said, "Let's take over the pastures of God." [13] O my God, make them like dead thistles, like dead weeds blown away by the wind. [14] Like the fire that burns down the forest, or the flames that consume the mountainsides, [15] chase them with your gale winds, and terrify them with your windstorm. [16] Cover their faces with shame, so they might seek you, O LORD. [17] May they be humiliated and continually terrified. May they die in shame. [18] Then they will know that you alone are the LORD, the Most High over all the earth.
