1 O God, do not keep quiet. Do not be quiet, O God, and do not hold Your peace.

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

2 F or, look, those who hate You are making much noise. Those who fight against You have honored themselves.

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

3 T hey make bad plans against Your people. They plan against those You care for.

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

4 T hey say, “Come, let us destroy them as a nation. Let the name of Israel be remembered no longer.”

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 plan together with one mind. They make an agreement against You:

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 Hagarites;

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

7 G ebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with those who live in Tyre;

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

8 A ssyria has joined them also. They help the children of Lot.

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

9 D o to them as You did to Midian, and to Sisera and Jabin at the river of Kishon.

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

10 T hey were destroyed at Endor. They were spread over the field.

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

11 M ake their respected men like Oreb and Zeeb. Make 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 take for ourselves the fields of God.”

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

13 O my God, make them like dust turning in the wind, like parts of the grass that have no worth and are blown away.

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

14 A s the fire that burns up the trees and spreads over the mountains,

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

15 s o go behind them with Your storm. Make them afraid with Your storm.

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

16 F ill their faces with shame, so they will look to Your name, O Lord.

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

17 L et them be ashamed and afraid forever. Let them be put to shame and lost.

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

18 T hen 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.