Ps.83.1

GOD, don't shut me out; don't give me the silent treatment, O God.

Ps.83.1

O God, do not keep silent; be not quiet, O God, be not still.

Ps.83.1

Do not keep silent, O God! Do not hold Your peace, And do not be still, O God!

Ps.83.1

O God, don't sit idly by, silent and inactive!

Ps.83.2

Your enemies are out there whooping it up, the God--haters are living it up;

Ps.83.2

See how your enemies are astir, how your foes rear their heads.

Ps.83.2

For behold, Your enemies make a tumult; And those who hate You have lifted up their head.

Ps.83.2

Don't you hear the tumult of your enemies? Don't you see what your arrogant enemies are doing?

Ps.83.3

They're plotting to do your people in, conspiring to rob you of your precious ones.

Ps.83.3

With cunning they conspire against your people; they plot against those you cherish.

Ps.83.3

They have taken crafty counsel against Your people, And consulted together against Your sheltered ones.

Ps.83.3

They devise crafty schemes against your people, laying plans against your precious ones.

Ps.83.4

"Let's wipe this nation from the face of the earth," they say; "scratch Israel's name off the books."

Ps.83.4

"Come," they say, "let us destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel be remembered no more."

Ps.83.4

They have said, "Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more."

Ps.83.4

"Come," they say, "let us wipe out Israel as a nation. We will destroy the very memory of its existence."

Ps.83.5

And now they're putting their heads together, making plans to get rid of you.

Ps.83.5

With one mind they plot together; they form an alliance against you-

Ps.83.5

For they have consulted together with one consent; They form a confederacy against You:

Ps.83.5

This was their unanimous decision. They signed a treaty as allies against you--

Ps.83.6

Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites,

Ps.83.6

the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, of Moab and the Hagrites,

Ps.83.6

The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab and the Hagrites;

Ps.83.6

these Edomites and Ishmaelites, Moabites and Hagrites,

Ps.83.7

Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, Philistia and the Tyrians,

Ps.83.7

Gebal, Ammon and Amalek, Philistia, with the people of Tyre.

Ps.83.7

Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;

Ps.83.7

Gebalites, Ammonites, and Amalekites, and people from Philistia and Tyre.

Ps.83.8

And now Assyria has joined up, Giving muscle to the gang of Lot.

Ps.83.8

Even Assyria has joined them to lend strength to the descendants of Lot. Selah

Ps.83.8

Assyria also has joined with them; They have helped the children of Lot.Selah

Ps.83.8

Assyria has joined them, too, and is allied with the descendants of Lot.

Ps.83.9

Do to them what you did to Midian, to Sisera and Jabin at Kishon Brook;

Ps.83.9

Do to them as you did to Midian, as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon,

Ps.83.9

Deal with them as with Midian, As with Sisera, As with Jabin at the Brook Kishon,

Ps.83.9

Do to them as you did to the Midianites or as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River.

Ps.83.10

They came to a bad end at Endor, nothing but dung for the garden.

Ps.83.10

who perished at Endor and became like refuse on the ground.

Ps.83.10

Who perished at En Dor, Who became as refuse on the earth.

Ps.83.10

They were destroyed at Endor, and their decaying corpses fertilized the soil.

Ps.83.11

Cut down their leaders as you did Oreb and Zeeb, their princes to nothings like Zebah and Zalmunna,

Ps.83.11

Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,

Ps.83.11

Make their nobles like Oreb and like Zeeb, Yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,

Ps.83.11

Let their mighty nobles die as Oreb and Zeeb did. Let all their princes die like Zebah and Zalmunna,

Ps.83.12

With their empty brags, "We're grabbing it all, grabbing God's gardens for ourselves."

Ps.83.12

who said, "Let us take possession of the pasturelands of God."

Ps.83.12

Who said, "Let us take for ourselves The pastures of God for a possession."

Ps.83.12

for they said, "Let us seize for our own use these pasturelands of God!"

Ps.83.13

My God! I've had it with them! Blow them away! Tumbleweeds in the desert waste,

Ps.83.13

Make them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind.

Ps.83.13

O my God, make them like the whirling dust, Like the chaff before the wind!

Ps.83.13

O my God, blow them away like whirling dust, like chaff before the wind!

Ps.83.14

charred sticks in the burned-over ground.

Ps.83.14

As fire consumes the forest or a flame sets the mountains ablaze,

Ps.83.14

As the fire burns the woods, And as the flame sets the mountains on fire,

Ps.83.14

As a fire roars through a forest and as a flame sets mountains ablaze,

Ps.83.15

Knock the breath right out of them, so they're gasping

Ps.83.15

so pursue them with your tempest and terrify them with your storm.

Ps.83.15

So pursue them with Your tempest, And frighten them with Your storm.

Ps.83.15

chase them with your fierce storms; terrify them with your tempests.

Ps.83.16

for breath, gasping, "GOD."

Ps.83.16

Cover their faces with shame so that men will seek your name, O LORD.

Ps.83.16

Fill their faces with shame, That they may seek Your name, O LORD.

Ps.83.16

Utterly disgrace them until they submit to your name, O LORD.

Ps.83.17

Bring them to the end of their rope, and leave them there dangling, helpless.

Ps.83.17

May they ever be ashamed and dismayed; may they perish in disgrace.

Ps.83.17

Let them be confounded and dismayed forever; Yes, let them be put to shame and perish,

Ps.83.17

Let them be ashamed and terrified forever. Make them failures in everything they do,

Ps.83.18

Then they'll learn your name: "GOD," the one and only High God on earth. A Korah psalm

Ps.83.18

Let them know that you, whose name is the LORD - that you alone are the Most High over all the earth.

Ps.83.18

That they may know that You, whose name alone is the LORD, Are the Most High over all the earth.

Ps.83.18

until they learn that you alone are called the LORD, that you alone are the Most High, supreme over all the earth.