Thematic Bible
Psalm 83:1 (show verse)
God, don't keep silent. Don't keep silent, and don't be still, God.
Psalm 83:2 (show verse)
For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.
Psalm 83:3 (show verse)
They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones.
Psalm 83:4 (show verse)
"Come," they say, "and let's destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more."
Psalm 83:5 (show verse)
For they have conspired together with one mind. They form an alliance against you.
Psalm 83:6 (show verse)
The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagrites;
Psalm 83:7 (show verse)
Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
Psalm 83:8 (show verse)
Assyria also is joined with them. They have helped the children of Lot. Selah.
Psalm 83:9 (show verse)
Do to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon;
Psalm 83:10 (show verse)
who perished at Endor, who became as dung for the earth.
Psalm 83:11 (show verse)
Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb; yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna;
Psalm 83:12 (show verse)
who said, "Let us take possession of God's pasturelands."
Psalm 83:13 (show verse)
My God, make them like tumbleweed; like chaff before the wind.
Psalm 83:14 (show verse)
As the fire that burns the forest, as the flame that sets the mountains on fire,
Psalm 83:15 (show verse)
so pursue them with your tempest, and terrify them with your storm.
Psalm 83:16 (show verse)
Fill their faces with confusion, that they may seek your name, Yahweh.
Psalm 83:17 (show verse)
Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish;
Psalm 83:18 (show verse)
that they may know that you alone, whose name is Yahweh, are the Most High over all the earth. For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.