| | 1 | A song. A psalm of Asaph. O God, do not keep silent; be not quiet, O God, be not still. | |
| | 2 | See how your enemies are astir, how your foes rear their heads. | |
| | 3 | With cunning they conspire against your people; they plot against those you cherish. | |
| | 4 | "Come," they say, "let us destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel be remembered no more." | |
| | 5 | With one mind they plot together; they form an alliance against you-- | |
| | 6 | the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, of Moab and the Hagrites, | |
| | 7 | Gebal, Ammon and Amalek, Philistia, with the people of Tyre. | |
| | 8 | Even Assyria has joined them to lend strength to the descendants of Lot. Selah | |
| | 9 | Do to them as you did to Midian, as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon, | |
| | 10 | who perished at Endor and became like refuse on the ground. | |
| | 11 | Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna, | |
| | 12 | who said, "Let us take possession of the pasturelands of God." | |
| | 13 | Make them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind. | |
| | 14 | As fire consumes the forest or a flame sets the mountains ablaze, | |
| | 15 | so pursue them with your tempest and terrify them with your storm. | |
| | 16 | Cover their faces with shame so that men will seek your name, O LORD. | |
| | 17 | May they ever be ashamed and dismayed; may they perish in disgrace. | |
| | 18 | Let them know that you, whose name is the LORD--that you alone are the Most High over all the earth. | |
