1A song. A Psalm by Asaph. God, don’t be silent. Don’t keep quiet, and don’t do nothing, God.
2Look, your enemies are restless. Those who hate you have proudly raised their heads.
3They secretly scheme against your people. They plot against your treasured ones.
4They say, “Come, let’s destroy them as a nation, so that the name of Israel will not be remembered anymore.”
5For they have planned together with one purpose. They form an alliance against you.
6The people of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites,
7Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia with the people of Tyre,
8Assyria has also joined them. They have helped the descendants of Lot. Selah.
9Do to them as you did to Midian, as you did to Sisera, and to Jabin, at the Kishon River.
10They died at Endor and became like manure on the ground.
11Make their leaders like Oreb and Zeeb; all their rulers like Zebah and Zalmunna,
12who said, “Let’s take over God’s pasture lands.”
13My God, make them like tumbleweeds, like chaff blown by the wind.
14Just like a fire burning through a forest, or a flame setting mountains ablaze,
15chase them with your storms and terrify them with your tempests.
16Bring shame to their faces so they will seek your name, Yahweh.
17Let them be disgraced and terrified forever. Yes, let them be overwhelmed with shame and die;
18so they will know that you alone, whose name is Yahweh, are the Most High over all the earth.