Psalms 82

¹A Canticle Psalm of Asaph.

²O God, who will ever be like you? Do not be silent, and do not be unmoved, O God.

³For behold, your enemies have sounded off, and those who hate you have carried out a head.

⁴They have acted with malice in counsel over your people, and they have plotted against your holy ones.

⁵They have said, “Come, let us scatter them from the nations and not allow the name of Israel to be remembered any longer.”

⁶For they plotted unanimously. Joined together against you, they ordained a covenant:

⁷the tabernacle of Edomites and Ishmaelites, and Moab and the Hagarites,

⁸and Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek, the foreigners among the inhabitants of Tyre.

⁹For even Assur comes with them. They have become the helpers of the sons of Lot.

¹⁰Do to them as you did to Midian and Sisera, just as to Jabin at the torrent of Kishon.

¹¹They perished at Endor, and they became like the dung of the earth.

¹²Set their leaders to be like Oreb and Zeeb, and Zebah and Zalmunna: all their leaders

¹³who said, “Let us possess the Sanctuary of God for an inheritance.”

¹⁴My God, set them like a wheel, and like stubble before the face of the wind.

¹⁵Set them like a fire burning up the forest, and like a flame burning up the mountains.

¹⁶So will you pursue them in your tempest, and disturb them in your wrath.

¹⁷Fill their faces with shame, and they will seek your name, O Lord.

¹⁸Let them be ashamed and troubled, from age to age, and let them be confounded and perish.

¹⁹And let them know that the Lord is your name. You alone are the Most High in all the earth.

¹A canticle of a psalm for Asaph.

²O God, who shall be like to thee? hold not thy peace, neither be thou still, O God.

³For lo, thy enemies have made a noise: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.

⁴They have taken a malicious counsel against thy people, and have consulted against thy saints.

⁵They have said: Come and let us destroy them, so that they be not a nation: and let the name of Israel be remembered no more.

⁶For they have contrived with one consent: they have made a covenant together against thee,

⁷The tabernacle of the Edomites, and the Ishmahelites: Moab, and the Agarens,

⁸Gebal, and Ammon and Amalec: the Philistines, with the inhabitants of Tyre.

⁹Yea, and the Assyrian also is joined with them: they are come to the aid of the sons of Lot.

¹⁰Do to them as thou didst to Madian and to Sisara: as to Jabin at the brook of Cisson.

¹¹Who perished at Endor: and became as dung for the earth.

¹²Make their princes like Oreb, and Zeb, and Zebee, and Salmana. All their princes,

¹³Who have said: Let us possess the sanctuary of God for an inheritance.

¹⁴O my God, make them like a wheel; and as stubble before the wind.

¹⁵As fire which burneth the wood: and as a flame burning mountains:

¹⁶So shalt thou pursue them with thy tempest: and shalt trouble them in thy wrath.

¹⁷Fill their faces with shame; and they shall seek thy name, O Lord.

¹⁸Let them be ashamed and troubled for ever and ever: and let them be confounded and perish.

¹⁹And let them know that the Lord is thy name: thou alone art the most High over all the earth.