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Psalm 83 · Book Three · Asaph

A song. A Psalm of Asaph.

The Hebrew title · Berean Standard Bible

About this psalm

A list of nations that have agreed with one another against God’s people, and a prayer that they be scattered like the chaff before the wind. It is uncomfortable, and it is honest about wanting enemies stopped. Its last request is not their destruction but their understanding: that men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.

Read it when it feels like everyone has lined up against you.

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One verse at a time · it stops at the Selah

¹Keep not thou silence, O God:hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.²For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult:and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.³They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.⁴They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation;that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.⁵For they have consulted together with one consent:they are confederate against thee:⁶The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites;of Moab, and the Hagarenes;⁷Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek;the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;⁸Assur also is joined with them:they have holpen the children of Lot.

Selah

⁹Do unto them as unto the Midianites;as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:¹⁰Which perished at Endor:they became as dung for the earth.¹¹Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb:yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:¹²Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.¹³O my God, make them like a wheel;as the stubble before the wind.¹⁴As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;¹⁵So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.¹⁶Fill their faces with shame;that they may seek thy name, O LORD.¹⁷Let them be confounded and troubled for ever;yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:¹⁸That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.

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