NET Bible | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
1A song, a psalm of Asaph. O God, do not be silent! Do not ignore us! Do not be inactive, O God! | 1A Song, a Psalm of Asaph. O God, do not remain quiet; Do not be silent and, O God, do not be still. |
2For look, your enemies are making a commotion; those who hate you are hostile. | 2For behold, Your enemies make an uproar, And those who hate You have exalted themselves. |
3They carefully plot against your people, and make plans to harm the ones you cherish. | 3They make shrewd plans against Your people, And conspire together against Your treasured ones. |
4They say, "Come on, let's annihilate them so they are no longer a nation! Then the name of Israel will be remembered no more." | 4They have said, "Come, and let us wipe them out as a nation, That the name of Israel be remembered no more." |
5Yes, they devise a unified strategy; they form an alliance against you. | 5For they have conspired together with one mind; Against You they make a covenant: |
6It includes the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites, | 6The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites; |
7Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia and the inhabitants of Tyre. | 7Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre; |
8Even Assyria has allied with them, lending its strength to the descendants of Lot. (Selah) | 8Assyria also has joined with them; They have become a help to the children of Lot. Selah. |
9Do to them as you did to Midian--as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River! | 9Deal with them as with Midian, As with Sisera and Jabin at the torrent of Kishon, |
10They were destroyed at Endor; their corpses were like manure on the ground. | 10Who were destroyed at En-dor, Who became as dung for the ground. |
11Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, and all their rulers like Zebah and Zalmunna, | 11Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb And all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna, |
12who said, "Let's take over the pastures of God!" | 12Who said, "Let us possess for ourselves The pastures of God." |
13O my God, make them like dead thistles, like dead weeds blown away by the wind! | 13O my God, make them like the whirling dust, Like chaff before the wind. |
14Like the fire that burns down the forest, or the flames that consume the mountainsides, | 14Like fire that burns the forest And like a flame that sets the mountains on fire, |
15chase them with your gale winds, and terrify them with your windstorm. | 15So pursue them with Your tempest And terrify them with Your storm. |
16Cover their faces with shame, so they might seek you, O LORD. | 16Fill their faces with dishonor, That they may seek Your name, O LORD. |
17May they be humiliated and continually terrified! May they die in shame! | 17Let them be ashamed and dismayed forever, And let them be humiliated and perish, |
18Then they will know that you alone are the LORD, the sovereign king over all the earth. | 18That they may know that You alone, whose name is the LORD, Are the Most High over all the earth. |
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