1 A song of chanting to Asaph. O God, not stillness to thee: thou wilt not be silent, and thou wilt not rest, O God.
1 A Song, a Psalm of Asaph.O God, (A)do not remain quiet;(B)Do not be silent and, O God, do not be still.
1 {A Song or Psalm of Asaph.} Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
1 God, do not rest! Don't be silent! Don't stay inactive, God!
2 For behold, thine enemies will be clamorous; and they hating thee lifted up the head.
2 For behold, Your enemies (C)make an uproar,And (D)those who hate You have (a)(E)exalted themselves.
2 For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
2 See! Your enemies rage; those who hate you issue threats.
3 Against thy people they will make crafty consultation, and they will counsel against thy hidden ones.
3 They (F)make shrewd plans against Your people,And (b)conspire together against (G)Your (c)treasured ones.
3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.
3 They plot against your people and conspire against your cherished ones.
4 They said, Come, and we will cut them off from a nation; and the name of Israel shall no more be remembered.
4 They have said, “Come, and (H)let us wipe them out (d)as a nation,That the (I)name of Israel be remembered no more.”
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
4 They say, “Come, let us wipe them out as a nationso that Israel’s name will no longer be remembered.”(E)
4 They say, "Let us go and erase them as a nation so the name of Israel will not be remembered anymore."
8 Also Assur was joined with them: they were an arm to the sons of Lot Silence.
8 (T)Assyria also has joined with them;They have become (f)a help to the (U)children of Lot. (g)Selah.
8 Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.
8 Even Assyria joined them to strengthen the descendants of Lot. Interlude
18 And they shall know that thou, thy name Jehovah alone, the Most High over all the earth.
18 That they may (AJ)know that (AK)You alone, whose name is the Lord,Are the (AL)Most High over all the earth.
18 That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.
18 Then they will know that you alone whose name is LORD are the Most High over all the earth. To the Director: On the Gittith. A Psalm by the descendants of Korah.
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