One of Asaph's songs of praise.
<1> God, don't keep quiet!
Don't close your ears!
Please say something, God.
<2> God, your enemies are getting ready to do something.
Those who hate you will soon attack.
<3> They are making secret plans against your people.
Your enemies are discussing plans against the people you love.
<4> The enemies are saying,
"Come, let us destroy them completely.
Then no one will ever again remember the name Israel."
<5> God, all those people have joined together.
They have united against you.
<6-7> Their army includes the Edomites, the Ishmaelites,
the Moabites and Hagar's descendants,
people from Byblos, Ammon, and Amalek,
the Philistines, and the people living in Tyre.
<8> Even the Assyrians have joined them.
They have made Lot's descendants very powerful.
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<9> God, defeat them just as you defeated Midian.
Do what you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River.
<10> You destroyed them at Endor,
and their bodies rotted on the ground.
<11> Punish their leaders as you did Oreb and Zeeb.
Do what you did to Zebah and Zalmunna.
<12> They said, "Let's make this land our own-
these fields of grass that belong to God!"
<13> Make them like tumbleweeds[476] blown by the wind.
Scatter them like the wind scatters straw.
<14> Be like a fire that destroys a forest,
or like a flame that sets the hills on fire,
<15> and chase them away with your blasts of wind;
frighten them with your storms.
<16> Lord, cover them with shame
until they come to you for help.
<17> Scare them and make them ashamed forever.
Disgrace them and break them down.
<18> Then they will know that your name is Yahweh[477]-
that you alone are the Lord.
They will know that you are God Most High,
ruler over all the earth!
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