1 O God, do not keep still; do not be silent, and do not be quiet, O God.
2 For see, your enemies roar, and those who hate you have raised their heads.
3 Against your people they plot cunningly; they take counsel together against your hidden ones.
4 They have said, "Come, let us cut them off from being a nation, so that the name of Israel is remembered no longer."
5 For with one mind they have plotted together; against you they make a covenant:
6 the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites,
7 Gebal, Ammon and Amalek, Philistia with those who live in Tyre;
8 Asshur too has joined itself to them; they have become the strength of the children of Lot. Selah.
9 Deal with them as with Midian, as with Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon,
10 who perished at En-dor and became manure for the soil.
11 Make their nobles like Oreb and like Zeeb, and all their rulers like Zebah and like Zalmunna,
12 who said, "Let us take for ourselves the dwellings of God as our possession."
13 My God, make them like a tumbleweed, like straw before the wind.
14 Like fire that burns up the woods, like flame that scorches the mountains,
15 so chase them with your gale and dismay them with your storm wind.
16 Cover their faces with disgrace, so that they will seek your name, O LORD.
17 May they be put to shame and dismayed for ever; may they be humiliated and perish,
18 and let them know that you, whose name is the LORD, you only are the Most High over all the earth.