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

Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.

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

For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.

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

They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden 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.”

They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.

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

For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:

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

The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;

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

Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;

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

Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.

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

Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:

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

Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth.

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

Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:

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

Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.

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

O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.

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

As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;

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

So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.

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

Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O Lord.

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

Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:

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

That men may know that thou, whose name alone is Jehovah, art the most high over all the earth.