O God, Be Not Silent 1 CPDV A Canticle Psalm of Asaph. O God, who will ever be like you? Do not be silent, and do not be unmoved, O God. BSB BSB: A song. A Psalm of Asaph. O God, be not silent; be not speechless; be not still, O God.
2 CPDV For behold, your enemies have sounded off, and those who hate you have carried out a head. BSB BSB: See how Your enemies rage, how Your foes have reared their heads.
3 CPDV They have acted with malice in counsel over your people, and they have plotted against your holy ones. BSB BSB: With cunning they scheme against Your people and conspire against those You cherish,
4 CPDV They have said, “Come, let us scatter them from the nations and not allow the name of Israel to be remembered any longer.” BSB BSB: saying, “Come, let us erase them as a nation; may the name of Israel be remembered no more.”
5 CPDV For they plotted unanimously. Joined together against you, they ordained a covenant: BSB BSB: For with one mind they plot together; they form an alliance against You—
6 CPDV the tabernacle of Edomites and Ishmaelites, and Moab and the Hagarites, BSB BSB: the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, of Moab and the Hagrites,
7 CPDV and Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek, the foreigners among the inhabitants of Tyre. BSB BSB: of Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, of Philistia with the people of Tyre.
8 CPDV For even Assur comes with them. They have become the helpers of the sons of Lot. BSB BSB: Even Assyria has joined them, lending strength to the sons of Lot. Selah
9 CPDV Do to them as you did to Midian and Sisera, just as to Jabin at the torrent of Kishon. BSB BSB: Do to them as You did to Midian, as to Sisera and Jabin at the River Kishon,
10 CPDV They perished at Endor, and they became like the dung of the earth. BSB BSB: who perished at Endor and became like dung on the ground.
11 CPDV Set their leaders to be like Oreb and Zeeb, and Zebah and Zalmunna: all their leaders BSB BSB: Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, and all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
12 CPDV who said, “Let us possess the Sanctuary of God for an inheritance.” BSB BSB: who said, “Let us possess for ourselves the pastures of God.”
13 CPDV My God, set them like a wheel, and like stubble before the face of the wind. BSB BSB: Make them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind.
14 CPDV Set them like a fire burning up the forest, and like a flame burning up the mountains. BSB BSB: As fire consumes a forest, as a flame sets the mountains ablaze,
15 CPDV So will you pursue them in your tempest, and disturb them in your wrath. BSB BSB: so pursue them with Your tempest, and terrify them with Your storm.
16 CPDV Fill their faces with shame, and they will seek your name, O Lord. BSB BSB: Cover their faces with shame, that they may seek Your name, O LORD.
17 CPDV Let them be ashamed and troubled, from age to age, and let them be confounded and perish. BSB BSB: May they be ever ashamed and terrified; may they perish in disgrace.
18 CPDV And let them know that the Lord is your name. You alone are the Most High in all 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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