| NET Bible | New Living Translation |
| 1A song, a psalm of Asaph. O God, do not be silent! Do not ignore us! Do not be inactive, O God! | 1O God, do not be silent! Do not be deaf. Do not be quiet, O God. |
| 2For look, your enemies are making a commotion; those who hate you are hostile. | 2Don’t you hear the uproar of your enemies? Don’t you see that your arrogant enemies are rising up? |
| 3They carefully plot against your people, and make plans to harm the ones you cherish. | 3They devise crafty schemes against your people; they conspire against your precious 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." | 4“Come,” they say, “let us wipe out Israel as a nation. We will destroy the very memory of its existence.” |
| 5Yes, they devise a unified strategy; they form an alliance against you. | 5Yes, this was their unanimous decision. They signed a treaty as allies against you— |
| 6It includes the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites, | 6these Edomites and Ishmaelites; Moabites and Hagrites; |
| 7Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia and the inhabitants of Tyre. | 7Gebalites, Ammonites, and Amalekites; and people from Philistia and Tyre. |
| 8Even Assyria has allied with them, lending its strength to the descendants of Lot. (Selah) | 8Assyria has joined them, too, and is allied with the descendants of Lot. Interlude |
| 9Do to them as you did to Midian--as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River! | 9Do to them as you did to the Midianites and as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River. |
| 10They were destroyed at Endor; their corpses were like manure on the ground. | 10They were destroyed at Endor, and their decaying corpses fertilized the soil. |
| 11Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, and all their rulers like Zebah and Zalmunna, | 11Let their mighty nobles die as Oreb and Zeeb did. Let all their princes die like Zebah and Zalmunna, |
| 12who said, "Let's take over the pastures of God!" | 12for they said, “Let us seize for our own use these pasturelands of God!” |
| 13O my God, make them like dead thistles, like dead weeds blown away by the wind! | 13O my God, scatter them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind! |
| 14Like the fire that burns down the forest, or the flames that consume the mountainsides, | 14As a fire burns a forest and as a flame sets mountains ablaze, |
| 15chase them with your gale winds, and terrify them with your windstorm. | 15chase them with your fierce storm; terrify them with your tempest. |
| 16Cover their faces with shame, so they might seek you, O LORD. | 16Utterly disgrace them until they submit to your name, O LORD. |
| 17May they be humiliated and continually terrified! May they die in shame! | 17Let them be ashamed and terrified forever. Let them die in disgrace. |
| 18Then they will know that you alone are the LORD, the sovereign king over all the earth. | 18Then they will learn that you alone are called the LORD, that you alone are the Most High, supreme over all the earth. |
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