[1] O God, do not be silent! Do not be deaf. Do not be quiet, O God. [2] Don't you hear the uproar of your enemies? Don't you see that your arrogant enemies are rising up? [3] They devise crafty schemes against your people; they conspire against your precious ones. [4] "Come," they say, "let us wipe out Israel as a nation. We will destroy the very memory of its existence." [5] Yes, this was their unanimous decision. They signed a treaty as allies against you- [6] these Edomites and Ishmaelites; Moabites and Hagrites; [7] Gebalites, Ammonites, and Amalekites; and people from Philistia and Tyre. [8] Assyria has joined them, too, and is allied with the descendants of Lot. Interlude [9] Do to them as you did to the Midianites and as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River. [10] They were destroyed at Endor, and their decaying corpses fertilized the soil. [11] Let their mighty nobles die as Oreb and Zeeb did. Let all their princes die like Zebah and Zalmunna, [12] for they said, "Let us seize for our own use these pasturelands of God!" [13] O my God, scatter them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind! [14] As a fire burns a forest and as a flame sets mountains ablaze, [15] chase them with your fierce storm; terrify them with your tempest. [16] Utterly disgrace them until they submit to your name, O LORD. [17] Let them be ashamed and terrified forever. Let them die in disgrace. [18] Then they will learn that you alone are called the LORD, that you alone are the Most High, supreme over all the earth.
