1 A Song, -- A Psalm of Asaph. O God, let there be no silence to Thee, Be not silent, nor be quiet, O God.

2 F or, lo, Thine enemies do roar, And those hating Thee have lifted up the head,

3 A gainst Thy people they take crafty counsel, And consult against Thy hidden ones.

4 T hey have said, `Come, And we cut them off from a nation, And the name of Israel is not remembered any more.'

5 F or they consulted in heart together, Against Thee a covenant they make,

6 T ents of Edom, and Ishmaelites, Moab, and the Hagarenes,

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

8 A sshur also is joined with them, They have been an arm to sons of Lot. Selah.

9 D o to them as Midian, As Sisera, as Jabin, at the stream Kishon.

10 T hey were destroyed at Endor, They were dung for the ground!

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

12 W ho have said, `Let us occupy for ourselves The comely places of God.'

13 O my God, make them as a rolling thing, As stubble before wind.

14 A s a fire doth burn a forest, And as a flame setteth hills on fire,

15 S o dost Thou pursue them with Thy whirlwind, And with Thy hurricane troublest them.

16 F ill their faces shame, And they seek Thy name, O Jehovah.

17 T hey are ashamed and troubled for ever, Yea, they are confounded and lost.

18 A nd they know that Thou -- (Thy name Jehovah -- by Thyself,) the Most High over all the earth!