O God, Be Not Silent 1 UST God, please take action to help us! Please do that right away! BSB BSB: A song. A Psalm of Asaph. O God, be not silent; be not speechless; be not still, O God.
2 UST I ask this because the enemies who hate you are defiantly approaching us with a large army. BSB BSB: See how Your enemies rage, how Your foes have reared their heads.
3 UST They have plotted deviously together to fight against us Israelites whom you cherish. BSB BSB: With cunning they scheme against Your people and conspire against those You cherish,
4 UST They have said to each other,“Come on, let us destroy them so completely that no one will ever remember that Israel existed!” BSB BSB: saying, “Come, let us erase them as a nation; may the name of Israel be remembered no more.”
5 UST They have all agreed to do this, and they have made an alliance against you. BSB BSB: For with one mind they plot together; they form an alliance against You—
6 UST This army includes soldiers who are Edomites, Ishmaelites, Moabites, Hagrites, BSB BSB: the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, of Moab and the Hagrites,
7 UST Gebalites, Ammonites, Amalekites, Philistines, and Tyrians. BSB BSB: of Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, of Philistia with the people of Tyre.
8 UST The Assyrians are helping them. They have given military support to the Moabites and Ammonites{ who are leading this army}. Selah BSB BSB: Even Assyria has joined them, lending strength to the sons of Lot. Selah
9 UST Defeat them just as you helped Gideon defeat the Midianites, and just as you helped Barak defeat Sisera{, the commander of the Canaanite king} Jabin at the Kishon River! BSB BSB: Do to them as You did to Midian, as to Sisera and Jabin at the River Kishon,
10 UST You destroyed those Canaanites at En Dor, and their dead bodies rotted on the ground. BSB BSB: who perished at Endor and became like dung on the ground.
11 UST Kill the leaders of this invading army just as Gideon killed Oreb and Zeeb, the Midianite commanders. Defeat all their rulers just as Gideon defeated Zebah and Zalmunna{, the Midianite rulers}. BSB BSB: Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, and all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
12 UST They too had said,“Let us take for ourselves the land where God’ s people dwell.” BSB BSB: who said, “Let us possess for ourselves the pastures of God.”
13 UST My God, please defeat them so that they run away just as tumbleweed rolls away and just as chaff flies away in the wind! BSB BSB: Make them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind.
14 UST Just as a forest fire burns down trees and flames burn up the dry vegetation on hillsides, BSB BSB: As fire consumes a forest, as a flame sets the mountains ablaze,
15 UST make them run away afraid as if a great storm were driving them off. BSB BSB: so pursue them with Your tempest, and terrify them with Your storm.
16 UST Completely disgrace them so that they will acknowledge who you are, Yahweh. BSB BSB: Cover their faces with shame, that they may seek Your name, O LORD.
17 UST Embarrass them and make them always afraid. Humiliate them until they die. BSB BSB: May they be ever ashamed and terrified; may they perish in disgrace.
18 UST Then they will know that you alone, Yahweh, are the Most High God who rules over everyone in the world. BSB BSB: May they know that You alone, whose name is the LORD, are Most High over all the earth.
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