
83 - Deus, quis similis?

1   Hold not your tongue, O God; keep not silent, *
    but rouse yourself, O God.

2   For behold, your enemies murmur, *
    and those who hate you have lifted up their head.

3   They have conspired secretly against your people *
    and taken counsel against your cherished ones.

4   They have said, “Come, and let us wipe them out, that they may be no more a people, *
    and that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”

5   For they have brought their heads together with one consent *
    and are aligned against you:

6   The tents of the Edomites and the Ishmaelites, *
    the Moabites and Hagarenes,

7   Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek, *
    the Philistines with those who dwell at Tyre.

8   Assyria also has joined with them, *
    and has helped the children of Lot.

9   But do to them as you did to the Midianites, *
    to Sisera and to Jabin at the brook of Kishon,

10  Who perished at Endor *
    and became as dung on the earth.

11  Make their princes like Oreb and Zeëb; *
    indeed, make all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,

12  Who said, “Let us take for ourselves *
    the pastures of God as our possession.”

13  O my God, make them like whirling dust *
    and like stubble before the wind,

14  Like the fire that burns up the woods *
    and like the flame that consumes the mountains.

15  Pursue them even with your tempest, *
    and make them afraid with your storm.

16  Cover their faces with shame, O Lord, *
    that they may seek your Name.

17  Let them be disgraced and dismayed ever more and more; *
    let them be put to shame and perish.

18  And they shall know that you, whose Name is the Lord, *
    are alone the Most High over all the earth.
