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God, Don't Keep Silent
{A Song; a Psalm of Asaph.} O God, keep not silence; hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God:
{A Song; a Psalm of Asaph.} O God, keep not silence; hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God:
A song. A psalm of Asaph.
O God, do not be silent!
Do not be deaf.
Do not be quiet, O God.
O God, do not be silent!
Do not be deaf.
Do not be quiet, O God.
For behold, thine enemies make a tumult; and they that hate thee lift up the head.
Don’t you hear the uproar of your enemies?
Don’t you see that your arrogant enemies are rising up?
Don’t you see that your arrogant enemies are rising up?
They take crafty counsel against thy people, and consult against thy hidden ones:
They devise crafty schemes against your people;
they conspire against your precious ones.
they conspire against your precious ones.
They say, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, and let the name of Israel be mentioned no more.
“Come,” they say, “let us wipe out Israel as a nation.
We will destroy the very memory of its existence.”
We will destroy the very memory of its existence.”
For they have consulted together with one heart: they have made an alliance together against thee.
Yes, this was their unanimous decision.
They signed a treaty as allies against you —
They signed a treaty as allies against you —
The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagarites;
these Edomites and Ishmaelites;
Moabites and Hagrites;
Moabites and Hagrites;
Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia, with the inhabitants of Tyre;
Gebalites, Ammonites, and Amalekites;
and people from Philistia and Tyre.
and people from Philistia and Tyre.
Asshur also is joined with them: they are an arm to the sons of Lot. Selah.
Assyria has joined them, too,
and is allied with the descendants of Lot.
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and is allied with the descendants of Lot.
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Do unto them as to Midian; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the torrent of Kishon:
Do to them as you did to the Midianites
and as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River.
and as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River.
Who were destroyed at Endor; they became as dung for the ground.
They were destroyed at Endor,
and their decaying corpses fertilized the soil.
and their decaying corpses fertilized the soil.
Make their nobles as Oreb and as Zeeb; and all their chiefs as Zebah and as Zalmunna.
Let their mighty nobles die as Oreb and Zeeb did.
Let all their princes die like Zebah and Zalmunna,
Let all their princes die like Zebah and Zalmunna,
For they have said, Let us take to ourselves God's dwelling-places in possession.
for they said, “Let us seize for our own use
these pasturelands of God!”
these pasturelands of God!”
O my God, make them like a whirling thing, like stubble before the wind.
O my God, scatter them like tumbleweed,
like chaff before the wind!
like chaff before the wind!
As fire burneth a forest, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire,
As a fire burns a forest
and as a flame sets mountains ablaze,
and as a flame sets mountains ablaze,
So pursue them with thy tempest, and terrify them with thy whirlwind.
chase them with your fierce storm;
terrify them with your tempest.
terrify them with your tempest.
Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek thy name, O Jehovah.
Utterly disgrace them
until they submit to your name, O LORD.
until they submit to your name, O LORD.
Let them be put to shame and be dismayed for ever, and let them be confounded and perish:
Let them be ashamed and terrified forever.
Let them die in disgrace.
Let them die in disgrace.