Psalms 83

1A song. A Psalm by Asaph. God, don’t keep silent. Don’t keep silent, and don’t be still, God.Cross-references: Ps 28:1 · Ps 35:22 · Ps 44:23 · Ps 50:3 · Ps 109:1 · Isa 42:14

2For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.Cross-references: Judg 8:28 · 2Ki 19:28 · Ps 2:1 · Ps 74:4 · Ps 74:23 · Ps 75:4 · +15 more

3They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones.Cross-references: 1Sam 13:19 · Ps 10:9 · Ps 27:5 · Ps 31:20 · Ps 56:6 · Ps 64:2 · +4 more

4“Come,” they say, “let’s destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”Cross-references: Ex 1:10 · Esth 3:6 · Ps 74:8 · Prov 1:12 · Jer 11:19 · Jer 31:36 · +5 more

5For they have conspired together with one mind. They form an alliance against you.Cross-references: Josh 10:3 · 2Sam 10:6 · Ps 2:2 · Prov 21:30 · Isa 7:2 · Isa 7:5 · +5 more

6The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagrites;Cross-references: Gen 25:12 · 1Chr 5:10 · 1Chr 5:19 · 2Chr 20:1 · 2Chr 20:10 · Ps 137:7

7Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;Cross-references: Josh 13:5 · 1Sam 4:1 · 1Sam 15:2 · Ezek 27:3 · Ezek 27:9 · Amos 1:9

8Assyria also is joined with them. They have helped the children of Lot. Selah.Cross-references: Gen 10:11 · Gen 19:37 · Gen 25:3 · Deut 2:9 · 2Ki 15:19 · Isa 33:2

9Do to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon;Cross-references: Num 31:7 · Judg 4:7 · Judg 4:15 · Judg 5:21 · Judg 7:1 · Isa 9:4 · +1 more

10who perished at Endor, who became as dung for the earth.Cross-references: Josh 17:11 · 1Sam 28:7 · 2Ki 9:37 · Jer 8:2 · Jer 16:4 · Zeph 1:17

11Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,Cross-references: Judg 7:25 · Judg 8:12

12who said, “Let’s take possession of God’s pasture lands.”Cross-references: 2Chr 20:11 · Ps 74:7 · Ps 83:4

13My God, make them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind.Cross-references: Ex 15:7 · Job 13:25 · Job 21:18 · Ps 22:1 · Ps 35:5 · Ps 44:4 · +7 more

14As the fire that burns the forest, as the flame that sets the mountains on fire,Cross-references: Deut 32:22 · Isa 9:18 · Isa 30:33 · Isa 33:11 · Isa 64:1 · Ezek 20:47 · +3 more

15so pursue them with your tempest, and terrify them with your storm.Cross-references: Job 9:17 · Job 27:20 · Ps 11:6 · Ps 50:3 · Ps 58:9 · Isa 28:17 · +4 more

16Fill their faces with confusion, that they may seek your name, Yahweh.Cross-references: Job 10:15 · Ps 6:10 · Ps 9:19 · Ps 34:5 · Ps 109:29 · Ps 132:18

17Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish;Cross-references: Ps 35:4 · Ps 35:26 · Ps 40:14 · Ps 109:29

18that they may know that you alone, whose name is Yahweh, are the Most High over all the earth.Cross-references: Gen 22:14 · Ex 6:3 · 1Ki 18:37 · 2Ki 19:19 · Ps 9:2 · Ps 9:16 · +14 more