Prayer for the defeat of Israel's Enemies.Psalm 83(v82)
1Rest not, O God;
O God, be neither silent nor still, 2for thy enemies are making a tumult,
and those that hate thee carry their heads high. 3They devise cunning schemes against thy people
and conspire against those thou hast made thy treasure: 4'Come, away with them,' they cry,
'let them be a nation no longer,
let Israel's name be remembered no more.' 5With one mind they have agreed together
to make a league against thee: 6the families of Edom, the Ishmaelites,
Moabites and Hagarenes, 7Gebal, Ammon and Amalek,
Philistia and the citizens of Tyre, 8Asshur too their ally,
all of them lending aid to the descendants of Lot. 9Deal with them as with Sisera,
as with Jabin by the torrent of Kishon, 10who fell vanquished as Midian as Midian: transposed from previous verse fell at En-harod En-harod: prob. rdg, cp Judg. 7.1; Heb Endor,
and were spread on the battlefield like dung. 11Make their princes like Oreb and Zeeb,
make all their nobles like Zebah and Zalmunna; 12for they said, 'We will seize for ourselves
all the pastures of God's people.' 13Scatter them, O God, like thistledown,
like chaff before the wind. 14Like fire raging through the forest
or flames which blaze across the hills, 15hunt them down with thy tempest,
and dismay them with thy storm-wind. 16Heap shame upon their heads, O LORD,
until they confess the greatness of thy name. 17Let them be abashed, and live in perpetual dismay;
let them feel their shame and perish. 18So let them learn that thou alone art LORD,
God Most High over all the earth.