A Song. A Psalm of Asaph.

¹ O God, do not keep silence;
   do not hold your peace or be still, O God!
² For behold, your enemies make an uproar;
   those who hate you have raised their heads.
³ They lay crafty plans against your people;
   they consult together against your treasured ones.
⁴ They say, “Come, let us wipe them out as a nation;
   let the name of Israel be remembered no more!”
⁵ For they conspire with one accord;
   against you they make a covenant—
⁶ the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,
   Moab and the Hagrites,
⁷ Gebal and Ammon and Amalek,
   Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
⁸ Asshur also has joined them;
   they are the strong arm of the children of Lot. Selah

⁹ Do to them as you did to Midian,
   as to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon,
¹⁰ who were destroyed at En-dor,
   who became dung for the ground.
¹¹ Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb,
   all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
¹² who said, “Let us take possession for ourselves
   of the pastures of God.”

¹³ O my God, make them like whirling dust,
   like chaff before the wind.
¹⁴ As fire consumes the forest,
   as the flame sets the mountains ablaze,
¹⁵ so may you pursue them with your tempest
   and terrify them with your hurricane!
¹⁶ Fill their faces with shame,
   that they may seek your name, O LORD.
¹⁷ Let them be put to shame and dismayed forever;
   let them perish in disgrace,
¹⁸ that they may know that you alone,
   whose name is the LORD,
   are the Most High over all the earth.