O God, Do Not Be Quiet
A Song. A Psalm of Asaph.
O God, ado not remain at rest;
bDo not be silent and, O God, do not be quiet.
2 For behold, Your enemies aroar,
And bthose who hate You have clifted up their heads.
3 They amake shrewd plans against Your people,
And conspire together against bYour treasured ones.
4 They have said, “Come, and alet us wipe them out as a nation,
That the bname of Israel be remembered no more.”
5 For they have aconspired together with one heart;
Against You they cut a covenant:
6 The tents of aEdom and the bIshmaelites,
cMoab and the dHagrites;
7 aGebal and bAmmon and cAmalek,
dPhilistia with the inhabitants of eTyre;
8 aAssyria also has joined with them;
They have become the power of the bchildren of Lot. Selah.
9 Do to them aas to Midian,
As bto Sisera, and Jabin at the river of Kishon,
10 Who were destroyed at En‑dor,
Who awere as dung for the ground.
11 Make their nobles like aOreb and Zeeb
And all their princes like bZebah and Zalmunna,
12 Who said, “aLet us possess for ourselves
The bpastures of God.”
13 O my God, make them like the awhirling dust,
Like bchaff before the wind.
14 Like afire that burns the forest
And like a flame that bburns up the mountains,
15 So pursue them awith Your tempest
And dismay them with Your storm.
16 aFill their faces with disgrace,
That they may seek Your name, O Yahweh.
17 Let them be aashamed and dismayed forever,
And let them be humiliated and perish,
18 That they may aknow that bYou alone—Your name is Yahweh—
Are the cMost High over all the earth.