Psalm 83 NLT NIV Parallel

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◄ Psalm 83 ►

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

1A song. A psalm of Asaph. O God, do not remain silent; do not turn a deaf ear, do not stand aloof, O God.

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

2See how your enemies growl, how your foes rear their heads.

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

3With cunning they conspire against your people; they plot against those you cherish.

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

4"Come," they say, "let us destroy them as a nation, so that Israel's name is remembered no more."

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

5With one mind they plot together; they form an alliance against you--

6these Edomites and Ishmaelites; Moabites and Hagrites;

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

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

7Byblos, Ammon and Amalek, Philistia, with the people of Tyre.

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

8Even Assyria has joined them to reinforce Lot's descendants.

9Do to them as you did to the Midianites and as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River.

9Do to them as you did to Midian, as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon,

10They were destroyed at Endor, and their decaying corpses fertilized the soil.

10who perished at Endor and became like dung on the ground.

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

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

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

12who said, "Let us take possession of the pasturelands of God."

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

13Make them like tumbleweed, my God, like chaff before the wind.

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

14As fire consumes the forest or a flame sets the mountains ablaze,

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

15so pursue them with your tempest and terrify them with your storm.

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

16Cover their faces with shame, LORD, so that they will seek your name.

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

17May they ever be ashamed and dismayed; may they perish in disgrace.

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

18Let them know that you, whose name is the LORD-- that you alone are the Most High over all the earth.