Prayer to Frustrate Conspiracy Against Israel

A Song. A Psalm of Asaph.

83 Do not keep silent, O God!Do not hold Your peace,And do not be still, O God!² For behold, Your enemies make a tumult;And those who hate You have lifted up their head.³ They have taken crafty counsel against Your people,And consulted together against Your sheltered ones.⁴ They have said, “Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation,That the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”

⁵ For they have consulted together with one consent;They form a confederacy against You:⁶ The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites;Moab and the Hagrites;⁷ Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek;Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;⁸ Assyria also has joined with them;They have helped the children of Lot. Selah

⁹ Deal with them as with Midian,As with Sisera,As with Jabin at the Brook Kishon,¹⁰ Who perished at En Dor,Who became as refuse on the earth.¹¹ Make their nobles like Oreb and like Zeeb,Yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,¹² Who said, “Let us take for ourselvesThe pastures of God for a possession.”

¹³ O my God, make them like the whirling dust,Like the chaff before the wind!¹⁴ As the fire burns the woods,And as the flame sets the mountains on fire,¹⁵ So pursue them with Your tempest,And frighten them with Your storm.¹⁶ Fill their faces with shame,That they may seek Your name, O Lord.¹⁷ Let them be confounded and dismayed forever;Yes, let them be put to shame and perish,¹⁸ That they may know that You, whose name alone is the Lord,Are the Most High over all the earth.