1 ARST God, do not continue to be silent! Do not be quiet and say nothing BSB BSB: A song. A Psalm of Asaph. O God, be not silent; be not speechless; be not still, O God.
2 ARST because your enemies are rioting against you; those who hate you are rebelling against you! BSB BSB: See how Your enemies rage, how Your foes have reared their heads.
3 ARST They are secretly planning to do things to harm us, your people; they are conspiring together against the people whom you protect. BSB BSB: With cunning they scheme against Your people and conspire against those You cherish,
4 ARST They say,“Come, we must destroy their nation so that no one will remember that Israel ever existed!” BSB BSB: saying, “Come, let us erase them as a nation; may the name of Israel be remembered no more.”
5 ARST They have agreed on what they want to do to destroy Israel, and they have agreed to attack you together. BSB BSB: For with one mind they plot together; they form an alliance against You—
6 ARST Your enemies are the people who live in the tents of Edom— the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites, they conspire together with BSB BSB: the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, of Moab and the Hagrites,
7 ARST the people of Gebal, and the Ammonites, and the Amalekites, and the Philistines, and the people of the city of Tyre. BSB BSB: of Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, of Philistia with the people of Tyre.
8 ARST The people of Assyria have joined them; they are strong allies of the Moab and Ammon people groups, who are descendants of Abraham’ s nephew Lot. BSB BSB: Even Assyria has joined them, lending strength to the sons of Lot. Selah
9 ARST God, do to those people things as you did to the Midian people group, as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon. BSB BSB: Do to them as You did to Midian, as to Sisera and Jabin at the River Kishon,
10 ARST You destroyed them at the town of Endor, and their corpses lay on the ground and decayed. BSB BSB: who perished at Endor and became like dung on the ground.
11 ARST Do to them things like you did to kings Oreb and Zeeb; defeat their leaders like you defeated Zebah and Zalmunna, BSB BSB: Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, and all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
12 ARST who said,“We will take for ourselves the land that the Israelites say belongs to God!” BSB BSB: who said, “Let us possess for ourselves the pastures of God.”
13 ARST My God, cause them to disappear quickly like whirling dust, like chaff that the wind blows away! BSB BSB: Make them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind.
14 ARST As a fire completely burns a forest and as flames burn in the mountains, BSB BSB: As fire consumes a forest, as a flame sets the mountains ablaze,
15 ARST expel them with your storms and cause them to be terrified by your big storms! BSB BSB: so pursue them with Your tempest, and terrify them with Your storm.
16 ARST Cause them to be very ashamed so that they will admit that you are very powerful. BSB BSB: Cover their faces with shame, that they may seek Your name, O LORD.
17 ARST Cause them to be forever disgraced because of being defeated, and cause them to die while they are still disgraced. BSB BSB: May they be ever ashamed and terrified; may they perish in disgrace.
18 ARST Cause them to know that you, whose name is Yahweh, are the supreme ruler over everything on the earth. BSB BSB: May they know that You alone, whose name is the LORD, are Most High over all the earth.
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