| International Standard Version | NET Bible |
| 1God, do not rest! Don't be silent! Don't stay inactive, God! | 1A song, a psalm of Asaph. O God, do not be silent! Do not ignore us! Do not be inactive, O God! |
| 2See! Your enemies rage; those who hate you issue threats. | 2For look, your enemies are making a commotion; those who hate you are hostile. |
| 3They plot against your people and conspire against your cherished ones. | 3They carefully plot against your people, and make plans to harm the ones you cherish. |
| 4They say, "Let us go and erase them as a nation so the name of Israel will not be remembered anymore." | 4They say, "Come on, let's annihilate them so they are no longer a nation! Then the name of Israel will be remembered no more." |
| 5Indeed, they shrewdly planned together, forming an alliance against you— | 5Yes, they devise a unified strategy; they form an alliance against you. |
| 6the tents of Edom, the Ishmaelites, Moab, the Hagrites, | 6It includes the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites, |
| 7Gebal, Ammon, Amalek, Philistia, and the inhabitants of Tyre. | 7Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia and the inhabitants of Tyre. |
| 8Even Assyria joined them to strengthen the descendants of Lot. Interlude | 8Even Assyria has allied with them, lending its strength to the descendants of Lot. (Selah) |
| 9Deal with them as you did to Midian, Sisera, and Jabin at the Kishon Brook. | 9Do to them as you did to Midian--as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River! |
| 10They were destroyed at En-dor and became as dung on the ground. | 10They were destroyed at Endor; their corpses were like manure on the ground. |
| 11Punish their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, and all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna, | 11Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, and all their rulers like Zebah and Zalmunna, |
| 12who said, "Let us possess the pastures of God." | 12who said, "Let's take over the pastures of God!" |
| 13God, set them up like dried thistles, like straw before the wind. | 13O my God, make them like dead thistles, like dead weeds blown away by the wind! |
| 14Like a fire burning a forest, and a flame setting mountains ablaze. | 14Like the fire that burns down the forest, or the flames that consume the mountainsides, |
| 15Pursue them with your storm and terrify them with your whirlwind. | 15chase them with your gale winds, and terrify them with your windstorm. |
| 16Fill their faces with shame until they seek your name, God. | 16Cover their faces with shame, so they might seek you, O LORD. |
| 17Let them be humiliated and terrified permanently until they die in shame. | 17May they be humiliated and continually terrified! May they die in shame! |
| 18Then they will know that you alone— whose name is LORD— are the Most High over all the earth. | 18Then they will know that you alone are the LORD, the sovereign king over all the earth. |
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