083:001
Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.

083:002
For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.

083:003
They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.

083:004
They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.

083:005
For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:

083:006
The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;

083:007
Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;

083:008
Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.

083:009
Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:

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083:010
Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth.

083:011
Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:

083:012
Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.

083:013
O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.

083:014
As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;

083:015
So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.

083:016
Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.

083:017
Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:

083:018
That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.

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