^1aA Song. A Psalm of Asaph.

^1bO God, do not be silent.

Do not be quiet,

And do not be still,

O God.

²For look,

Your enemies are in a commotion,

And those who hate you

Have raised their head.

³They are being crafty in their counsel against your people,

And they are plotting

Against those treasured up by you.

⁴They have said,

“Come, let us obliterate them

So that they aren't a people,

And the name of Israel is no longer remembered.”

⁵For they have deliberated unanimously;

They have made a covenant against you

⁶– The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,

Moab and the Hagrites,

⁷Gebal and Ammon and Amalek,

Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre.

⁸Assyria has also joined up with them;

They have become an arm to the sons of Lot.

Selah.

⁹Do to them as with Midian

– As to Sisera, as to Jabin,

At the Brook of Kishon.

¹⁰They were destroyed in En-Dor;

They became dung for the ground.

¹¹Make their nobles like Oreb and like Zeeb,

And all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,

¹²Who said,

“Let us take possession of God's dwellings for ourselves.”

¹³O God of mine, make them like chaff

– Like straw residue before the wind;

¹⁴Like fire that burns a forest

And like a flame that sets mountains on fire.

¹⁵So you will pursue them with your tempest

And terrify them with your whirlwind.

¹⁶Fill their faces with dishonour,

And let them seek your name, O Lord.

¹⁷Let them be ashamed and terrified in all perpetuity,

And be disgraced and perish.

¹⁸And they will know that you

– Only your name is the Lord –

Are the Most High over all the earth.