# Psalm 83 A Song. A Psalm of Asaph. 
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1. O God, do not keep silence; do not hold your peace or be still, O God! 
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2. For behold, your enemies make an uproar; those who hate you have raised their heads. 
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3. They lay crafty plans against your people; they consult together against your treasured ones. 
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4. They say, “Come, let us wipe them out as a nation; let the name of Israel be remembered no more!” 
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5. For they conspire with one accord; against you they make a covenant— 
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6. the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites, 
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7. Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre; 
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8. Asshur also has joined them; they are the strong arm of the children of Lot. Selah 
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9. Do to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon, 
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10. who were destroyed at En-dor, who became dung for the ground. 
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11. Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna, 
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12. who said, “Let us take possession for ourselves of the pastures of God.” 
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13. O my God, make them like whirling dust, like chaff before the wind. 
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14. As fire consumes the forest, as the flame sets the mountains ablaze, 
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15. so may you pursue them with your tempest and terrify them with your hurricane! 
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16. Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek your name, O LORD. 
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17. Let them be put to shame and dismayed forever; let them perish in disgrace, 
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18. that they may know that you alone, whose name is the LORD, are the Most High over all the earth. 

(ESV)