① 1* 2Do not be silent, O God, hold not your peace, be not unmoved!
3See how your enemies are astir; those who hate you rear their heads.
4Craftily they plot against your people, they conspire against those you protect.
5They say, “Let us finish them as a nation. Let the name of Israel be forgotten!”
6With one heart they devise a scheme and form an alliance against you: 7the people of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the progeny of Hagar,
8Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, Philistia, with the people of Tyre.
9Those from Sur are in league with them and lend support to Lot’s descendants.
10Deal with them as you did with Midian, with Sisera and Yabin at the river Kishon;
11they perished at Endor and became dung for the ground.
12Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, all their chiefs like Zebah and Zalmunna, 13who said, “Let us seize the pasture lands of God.”
14O my God, make them like leaves caught in a whirlwind, like chaff helpless before the wind.
15As fire consumes the forest, as flames set the mountains ablaze, 16drive them out with your tempest and terrify them with your storm.
17Cover their faces with shame, O Lord, that they may seek your name.
18Let them be dismayed and abashed forever; let them perish in disgrace.
19Let them know that you alone, whose name is the Lord, are the Most High over all the world.
- Verses 10-13 refer to the wars of liberation of Israel at the time of the Judges (chs. 4 and 7).
