1 O God, do not remain quiet; Do not be silent and, O God, do not be still.

2 F or behold, Your enemies make an uproar, And those who hate You have exalted themselves.

3 T hey make shrewd plans against Your people, And conspire together against Your treasured ones.

4 T hey have said, “Come, and let us wipe them out as a nation, That the name of Israel be remembered no more.”

5 F or they have conspired together with one mind; Against You they make a covenant:

6 T he tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites;

7 G ebal and Ammon and Amalek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;

8 A ssyria also has joined with them; They have become a help to the children of Lot. Selah.

9 D eal with them as with Midian, As with Sisera and Jabin at the torrent of Kishon,

10 W ho were destroyed at En-dor, Who became as dung for the ground.

11 M ake their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb And all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,

12 W ho said, “ Let us possess for ourselves The pastures of God.”

13 O my God, make them like the whirling dust, Like chaff before the wind.

14 L ike fire that burns the forest And like a flame that sets the mountains on fire,

15 S o pursue them with Your tempest And terrify them with Your storm.

16 F ill their faces with dishonor, That they may seek Your name, O Lord.

17 L et them be ashamed and dismayed forever, And let them be humiliated and perish,

18 T hat they may know that You alone, whose name is the Lord, Are the Most High over all the earth.