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[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]For, lo, Thine enemies do roar, And those hating Thee have lifted up the head,
[3]Against Thy people they take crafty counsel, And consult against Thy hidden ones.
[4]They have said, `Come, And we cut them off from [being] a nation, And the name of Israel is not remembered any more.'
[5]For they consulted in heart together, Against Thee a covenant they make,
[6]Tents of Edom, and Ishmaelites, Moab, and the Hagarenes,
[7]Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia with inhabitants of Tyre,
[8]Asshur also is joined with them, They have been an arm to sons of Lot. Selah.
[9]Do to them as [to] Midian, As [to] Sisera, as [to] Jabin, at the stream Kishon.
[10]They were destroyed at Endor, They were dung for the ground!
[11]Make their nobles as Oreb and as Zeeb, And as Zebah and Zalmunna all their princes,
[12]Who 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]As a fire doth burn a forest, And as a flame setteth hills on fire,
[15]So dost Thou pursue them with Thy whirlwind, And with Thy hurricane troublest them.
[16]Fill their faces [with] shame, And they seek Thy name, O Jehovah.
[17]They are ashamed and troubled for ever, Yea, they are confounded and lost.
[18]And they know that Thou -- (Thy name [is] Jehovah -- by Thyself,) [Art] the Most High over all the earth!
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