1 - ?A song. A psalm of Asaph.?
O God, do not remain silent; do not turn a deaf ear, do not stand aloof, O God.
2 - See how your enemies growl, how your foes rear their heads.
3 - With cunning they conspire against your people; they plot against those you cherish.
4 - "Come," they say, "let us destroy them as a nation, so that Israel's name is remembered no more."
5 - With one mind they plot together; they form an alliance against you -
6 - the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, of Moab and the Hagrites,
7 - Byblos, Ammon and Amalek, Philistia, with the people of Tyre.
8 - Even Assyria has joined them to reinforce Lot's descendants.
9 - Do to them as you did to Midian, as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon,
10 - who perished at Endor and became like dung on the ground.
11 - Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
12 - who said, "Let us take possession of the pasturelands of God."
13 - Make them like tumbleweed, my God, like chaff before the wind.
14 - As fire consumes the forest or a flame sets the mountains ablaze,
15 - so pursue them with your tempest and terrify them with your storm.
16 - Cover their faces with shame, Lord, so that they will seek your name.
17 - May they ever be ashamed and dismayed; may they perish in disgrace.
18 - Let them know that you, whose name is the Lord - that you alone are the Most High over all the earth.