O God, Do Not Keep Silence

A Song. A Psalm of gAsaph.

¹O God, do not keep silence;

hdo not hold your peace or be still, O God!

²For behold, your enemies imake an uproar;

those who hate you have jraised their heads.

³They lay kcrafty plans against your people;

they consult together against your ltreasured ones.

⁴They say, “Come, mlet us wipe them out as a nation;

let the name of Israel be remembered no more!”

⁵For they conspire with one accord;

against you they make a covenant—

⁶the tents of nEdom and othe Ishmaelites,

pMoab and qthe Hagrites,

⁷rGebal and pAmmon and sAmalek,

tPhilistia with the inhabitants of uTyre;

⁸vAsshur also has joined them;

they are the strong arm of wthe children of Lot. Selah

⁹Do to them as you did to xMidian,

as to ySisera and Jabin at zthe river Kishon,

¹⁰who were destroyed at aEn-dor,

who became bdung for the ground.

¹¹Make their nobles like cOreb and Zeeb,

all their princes like dZebah and Zalmunna,

¹²who said, e“Let us take possession for ourselves

of the pastures of God.”

¹³O my God, make them like fwhirling dust,1

like gchaff before the wind.

¹⁴As hfire consumes the forest,

as the flame isets the mountains ablaze,

¹⁵so may you pursue them jwith your tempest

and terrify them with your hurricane!

¹⁶kFill their faces with shame,

that they may seek your name, O Lord.

¹⁷Let them be lput to shame and dismayed forever;

let them perish in disgrace,

¹⁸that they may mknow that you alone,

nwhose name is the Lord,

are othe Most High over all the earth.