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.

My Soul Longs for the Courts of the Lord

To the choirmaster: according to pThe Gittith.1 A Psalm of qthe Sons of Korah.

¹How rlovely is your sdwelling place,

O Lord of hosts!

²My soul tlongs, yes, ufaints

for the courts of the Lord;

my heart and flesh sing for joy

to vthe living God.

³Even the sparrow finds a home,

and the swallow a nest for herself,

where she may lay her young,

at your altars, O Lord of hosts,

wmy King and my God.

⁴xBlessed are those who dwell in your house,

ever ysinging your praise! Selah

⁵Blessed are those whose strength is in you,

zin whose heart are the highways to Zion.2

⁶As they go through the Valley of Baca

they make it a place of springs;

athe early rain also covers it with bpools.

⁷They go cfrom strength to strength;

each one dappears before God in Zion.

⁸O eLord God of hosts, hear my prayer;

give ear, O God of Jacob! Selah

⁹fBehold our gshield, O God;

look on the face of your anointed!

¹⁰For a day hin your courts is better

than a thousand elsewhere.

I would rather be ia doorkeeper in the house of my God

than dwell in the tents of wickedness.

¹¹For the Lord God is ja sun and gshield;

the Lord bestows favor and honor.

kNo good thing does he withhold

from those who lwalk uprightly.

¹²O Lord of hosts,

mblessed is the one who trusts in you!