A Song of a Psalm for Asaph.
O God, who shall be compared to thee?
Be not silent, neither be still, O God.
For behold, thine enemies have made a noise;
And they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
Against thy people they have craftily imagined a device,
And have taken counsel against thy saints.
They have said, Come, and let us utterly destroy them out of the nation;
And let the name of Israel be remembered no more at all.
For they have taken counsel together with one consent:
They have made a confederacy against thee;
Even the tents of the Edomites, and the Ishmaelites;
Moab, and the Hagrites;
Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek;
The Philistines also, with them that dwell at Tyre.
Yea, Asshur too is come with them:
They have become a help to the children of Lot. Pause.
Do thou to them as to Midian, and to Sisera;
As to Jabin at the brook of Kishon.
They were utterly destroyed at En-dor:
They became as dung for the earth.
Make their princes as Oreb and Zeeb,
And Zebah and Zalmunna; even all their princes:
Who said, Let us take to ourselves the altar of God as an inheritance.
O my God, make them as a wheel;
As stubble before the face of the wind.
As fire which shall burn up a wood,
As the flame may consume the mountains;
So shalt thou persecute them with thy tempest,
And trouble them in thine anger.
Fill their faces with dishonor;
So shall they seek thy name, O Lord.
Let them be ashamed and troubled for evermore;
Yea, let them be confounded and destroyed.
And let them know that thy name is Lord;
That thou alone art Most High over all the earth.
