| NET Bible | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1A song, a psalm of Asaph. O God, do not be silent! Do not ignore us! Do not be inactive, O God! | 1A song. A psalm of Asaph. God, do not keep silent. Do not be deaf, God; do not be idle. |
| 2For look, your enemies are making a commotion; those who hate you are hostile. | 2See how Your enemies make an uproar; those who hate You have acted arrogantly. |
| 3They carefully plot against your people, and make plans to harm the ones you cherish. | 3They devise clever schemes against Your people; they conspire against Your treasured ones. |
| 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." | 4They say, "Come, let us wipe them out as a nation so that Israel's name will no longer be remembered." |
| 5Yes, they devise a unified strategy; they form an alliance against you. | 5For they have conspired with one mind; they form an alliance against You-- |
| 6It includes the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites, | 6the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites, |
| 7Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia and the inhabitants of Tyre. | 7Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre. |
| 8Even Assyria has allied with them, lending its strength to the descendants of Lot. (Selah) | 8Even Assyria has joined them; they lend support to the sons of Lot. Selah |
| 9Do to them as you did to Midian--as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River! | 9Deal with them as You did with Midian, as You did with Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River. |
| 10They were destroyed at Endor; their corpses were like manure on the ground. | 10They were destroyed at En-dor; they became manure for the ground. |
| 11Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, and all their rulers like Zebah and Zalmunna, | 11Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, and all their tribal leaders like Zebah and Zalmunna, |
| 12who said, "Let's take over the pastures of God!" | 12who said, "Let us seize God's pastures for ourselves." |
| 13O my God, make them like dead thistles, like dead weeds blown away by the wind! | 13Make them like tumbleweed, my God, like straw before the wind. |
| 14Like the fire that burns down the forest, or the flames that consume the mountainsides, | 14As fire burns a forest, as a flame blazes through mountains, |
| 15chase them with your gale winds, and terrify them with your windstorm. | 15so pursue them with Your tempest and terrify them with Your storm. |
| 16Cover their faces with shame, so they might seek you, O LORD. | 16Cover their faces with shame so that they will seek Your name Yahweh. |
| 17May they be humiliated and continually terrified! May they die in shame! | 17Let them be put to shame and terrified forever; let them perish in disgrace. |
| 18Then they will know that you alone are the LORD, the sovereign king over all the earth. | 18May they know that You alone-- whose name is Yahweh-- are the Most High over all the earth. |
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