A Song or Psalm of Asaph. |
Psalm 83:1-18 Book# 3 of Psalms [in Smaller Chunks] |
O God, [don't] keep [silent.] [Don't] hold Your peace & [don't] be still, O God. [Psalm 88:3-4 For my soul is full of troubles & my life draws [near] to the grave. I am [included] with [those who] go down to the pit. I am [like] a man, [who] has no strength.] |
For [look,] Your enemies make [an uproar] & [those who] hate You have lifted up [their heads.] [* Psalm 2:1-3 Why do the heathen rage & the people imagine a vain thing? |
The kings & rulers of the earth take counsel & [put] themselves against the Lord & against His anointed, saying, Let us break their bands [to pieces] & cast away their cords from us.] |
They have taken [devious] counsel against Your people & consulted against Your hidden ones. [Psalm 31:18-20 Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly & [disrespectfully] against the righteous. |
Oh, how great is Your goodness, [that] You have laid up for [those who] fear [respect] You & [what] You have [done] for [those who] trust in You, before the sons of men! |
You shall hide them in the secret [places] in Your presence from the pride of man. You shall keep them secretly in a [shelter] from the [discord] of tongues.] |
They have said, Come & let us cut them off from being a nation; [so] that the name of Israel may be no [longer remembered.] For they have consulted together with one [accord]. They are [united] against You: |
The tabernacles of: [the Edomites,] the Ishmaelites, [the Moabites,] the Hagarenes, [the Gebalites, the Ammonites, the Amalekites] & the Philistines, with the inhabitants of Tyre. Also, Assur [has] joined with them. |
They have [helped] the children [people] of Lot. Selah. Do to them [like] [You did] unto the Midianites; [like] to Sisera & [like] to Jabin, at the Brook of Kison: [who] perished at Endor. They became [like feces] for the earth. |
[Judges 4:21-23 Then, Jael, Heber’s wife, took a tent nail & a hammer in her hand & went softly to him & [struck] the nail into his temples & fastened it into the ground. For he was [tired] & fast asleep. So, he died. |
And, [saw,] as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him & said to him, [look,] Sisera lay dead & the nail was in his temples. So, God [defeated] Jabin, the king of Canaan, before the children [people] of Israel, on that day.] |
Make their nobles like Oreb & like Zeeb. [Judges 7:25 And they took 2 princes of the Midianites, Oreb & Zeeb. And they [killed] Oreb upon the rock [of] Oreb & Zeeb they [killed] at the wine press of Zeeb & pursued Midian. And brought the heads of Oreb & Zeeb to Gideon on the other side [of] Jordan.] |
[Yes,] [make] all their princes [like:] Zebah & [like] Zalmunna: who said, Let us take the houses of God in possession to ourselves. [Judges 8:18-19 Then [Gideon] said to Zebah & Zalmunna, What [type] of men were they, whom you [killed] at Tabor? |
And they answered, [Like] you are, so were they; each one resembled the children of a king. And [Gideon] said, They were my [brothers,] even the sons of my mother. As the Lord lives, if you had saved them alive, I wouldn't [kill] you.] |
O my God, make them like a wheel; [like] the stubble [in front of] the wind. [Like] the fire burns wood & [like] the flames sets the mountains on fire. So, persecute them with Your tempest & make them afraid with Your storm. |
Fill their faces with shame; [so] that they may seek Your Name, O Lord. Let them be [confused] & troubled forever. [Yes,] let them be put to shame & perish: [so] that men may know that You, Whose Name Alone is JEHOVAH, are the Most High over all the earth. |