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| [1] Holde not thy tongue O Lorde: kepe not styll scilence, refraine not thy selfe O Lorde |
[1]A song, or Psalm of Asaph. Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God. |
| [2]For beholde, thyne enemies make an vprore: and they that hate thee, haue lifted vp their head |
[2]For lo, thy enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head. |
| [3]They haue deuised shrewde counsell against thy people: and they haue consulted against thyne, whom thou defendest |
[3]They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones. |
| [4]They haue said, come, and let vs roote them out, that they be no more a people: and that the name of Israel may be no more in remembraunce |
[4]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]For they haue conspired all in one minde: & are confederate against thee |
[5]For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee, |
| [6]The pauilions of Edom and the Ismaelites: of Moab, and Hagerites |
[6]The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes; |
| [7]Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalec: the Philistines with the inhabitauntes of Tyre |
[7]Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre; |
| [8]Assur also is ioyned vnto them: they were a great ayde to the chyldren of Lot. Selah |
[8]Assur also is joined with them: they have helped the children of Lot. Selah. |
| [9]But do thou vnto them, as vnto Midian: as vnto Sisera, as vnto Iabin at the brooke Kishon |
[9]Do to them as to the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison: |
| [10]Whiche perished at Ein Dor: and became as the doung of the earth |
[10]Who perished at En-dor: they became as dung for the earth. |
| [11]Make them, their princes, [and] al their captaynes: lyke Oreb, and lyke Zeeb, and lyke Salmunna |
[11]Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yes, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna: |
| [12]Whiche sayd, let vs take to our selues: the houses of God in possession |
[12]Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession. |
| [13]O my Lorde, make them lyke vnto a wheele: and as chaffe before the winde |
[13]O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind. |
| [14]Lyke as a fire that burneth vp the wood: and as the flambe that consumeth the mountaynes |
[14]As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire; |
| [15]Persecute them euen so with thy tempest: and make them afrayde with thy storme |
[15]So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm. |
| [16]Make shame to appeare in their faces: that they may seeke thy name O God |
[16]Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD. |
| [17]Let them be confounded and astonied with feare euer more & more: let them be put to shame, and perishe |
[17]Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yes, let them be put to shame, and perish: |
| [18]And let them knowe that thou in thy name God eternall art only: O thou the most highest ouer all the earth |
[18]That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth. |