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Psalm 83 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

O God, Do Not Be Quiet

Psa 83:1

A Song. A Psalm of Asaph.

O God, do not remain at rest;

Do not be silent and, O God, do not be quiet.

Psa 83:2

For behold, Your enemies roar,

And those who hate You have lifted up their heads.

Psa 83:3

They make shrewd plans against Your people,

And [fn]conspire together against Your [fn]treasured ones.

Psa 83:4

They have said, “Come, and let us wipe them out [fn]as a nation,

That the name of Israel be remembered no more.”

Psa 83:5

For they have [fn]conspired together with one heart;

Against You they cut a covenant:

Psa 83:6

The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,

Moab and the Hagrites;

Psa 83:7

Gebal and Ammon and Amalek,

Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;

Psa 83:8

Assyria also has joined with them;

They have become [fn]the power of the children of Lot. [fn]Selah.

Psa 83:9

Do to them as to Midian,

As to Sisera, and Jabin at the river of Kishon,

Psa 83:10

Who were destroyed at En-dor,

Who were as dung for the ground.

Psa 83:11

Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb

And all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,

Psa 83:12

Who said, “Let us possess for ourselves

The pastures of God.”

Psa 83:13

O my God, make them like the [fn]whirling dust,

Like chaff before the wind.

Psa 83:14

Like fire that burns the forest

And like a flame that burns up the mountains,

Psa 83:15

So pursue them with Your tempest

And dismay them with Your storm.

Psa 83:16

Fill their faces with disgrace,

That they may seek Your name, O Yahweh.

Psa 83:17

Let them be ashamed and dismayed forever,

And let them be humiliated and perish,

Psa 83:18

That they may know that You alone—Your name is Yahweh

Are the Most High over all the earth.

LSB Footnotes
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Lit an arm
Selah may mean Pause, Crescendo, Musical Interlude
Or tumbleweed
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