Thematic Bible
Psalm 83:1 (show verse)
A song, a psalm of Asaph. O God, do not be silent! Do not ignore us! Do not be inactive, O God!
Psalm 83:2 (show verse)
For look, your enemies are making a commotion; those who hate you are hostile.
Psalm 83:3 (show verse)
They carefully plot against your people, and make plans to harm the ones you cherish.
Psalm 83:4 (show verse)
They say, "Come on, let's annihilate them so they are no longer a nation! Then the name of Israel will be remembered no more."
Psalm 83:5 (show verse)
Yes, they devise a unified strategy; they form an alliance against you.
Psalm 83:6 (show verse)
It includes the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites,
Psalm 83:7 (show verse)
Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia and the inhabitants of Tyre.
Psalm 83:8 (show verse)
Even Assyria has allied with them, lending its strength to the descendants of Lot. (Selah)
Psalm 83:9 (show verse)
Do to them as you did to Midian -- as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River!
Psalm 83:10 (show verse)
They were destroyed at Endor; their corpses were like manure on the ground.
Psalm 83:11 (show verse)
Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, and all their rulers like Zebah and Zalmunna,
Psalm 83:12 (show verse)
who said, "Let's take over the pastures of God!"
Psalm 83:13 (show verse)
O my God, make them like dead thistles, like dead weeds blown away by the wind!
Psalm 83:14 (show verse)
Like the fire that burns down the forest, or the flames that consume the mountainsides,
Psalm 83:15 (show verse)
chase them with your gale winds, and terrify them with your windstorm.
Psalm 83:16 (show verse)
Cover their faces with shame, so they might seek you, O Lord.
Psalm 83:17 (show verse)
May they be humiliated and continually terrified! May they die in shame!
Psalm 83:18 (show verse)
Then they will know that you alone are the Lord, the sovereign king over all the earth.