Psalm 83 ISV NLT Parallel

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◄ Psalm 83 ►

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1God, do not rest! Don't be silent! Don't stay inactive, God!

1O God, do not be silent! Do not be deaf. Do not be quiet, O God.

2See! Your enemies rage; those who hate you issue threats.

2Don’t you hear the uproar of your enemies? Don’t you see that your arrogant enemies are rising up?

3They plot against your people and conspire against your cherished ones.

3They devise crafty schemes against your people; they conspire against your precious ones.

4They say, "Let us go and erase them as a nation so the name of Israel will not be remembered anymore."

4“Come,” they say, “let us wipe out Israel as a nation. We will destroy the very memory of its existence.”

5Indeed, they shrewdly planned together, forming an alliance against you—

5Yes, this was their unanimous decision. They signed a treaty as allies against you—

6the tents of Edom, the Ishmaelites, Moab, the Hagrites,

6these Edomites and Ishmaelites; Moabites and Hagrites;

7Gebal, Ammon, Amalek, Philistia, and the inhabitants of Tyre.

7Gebalites, Ammonites, and Amalekites; and people from Philistia and Tyre.

8Even Assyria joined them to strengthen the descendants of Lot. Interlude

8Assyria has joined them, too, and is allied with the descendants of Lot. Interlude

9Deal with them as you did to Midian, Sisera, and Jabin at the Kishon Brook.

9Do to them as you did to the Midianites and 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, and their decaying corpses fertilized the soil.

11Punish their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, and all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,

11Let their mighty nobles die as Oreb and Zeeb did. Let all their princes die like Zebah and Zalmunna,

12who said, "Let us possess the pastures of God."

12for they said, “Let us seize for our own use these pasturelands of God!”

13God, set them up like dried thistles, like straw before the wind.

13O my God, scatter them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind!

14Like a fire burning a forest, and a flame setting mountains ablaze.

14As a fire burns a forest and as a flame sets mountains ablaze,

15Pursue them with your storm and terrify them with your whirlwind.

15chase them with your fierce storm; terrify them with your tempest.

16Fill their faces with shame until they seek your name, God.

16Utterly disgrace them until they submit to your name, O LORD.

17Let them be humiliated and terrified permanently until they die in shame.

17Let them be ashamed and terrified forever. Let them die in disgrace.

18Then they will know that you alone— whose name is LORD— are the Most High over all the earth.

18Then they will learn that you alone are called the LORD, that you alone are the Most High, supreme over all the earth.