Psalm 82

¹ A Song of a Psalm for Asaph.

² O God, who shall be compared to thee?

be not silent, neither be still, O God.

³ For behold, thine enemies have made a noise;

and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.

⁴ Against thy people they have craftily imagined a device,

and have taken counsel against thy saints.

⁵ 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.

⁶ For they have taken counsel together with one consent:

they have made a confederacy against thee;

⁷ even the tents of the Idumeans, and the Ismaelites;

Moab, and the Agarenes;

⁸ Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalec;

the Philistines also, with them that dwell at Tyre.

⁹ Yea, Assur too is come with them:

they have become a help to the children of Lot.

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¹⁰ Do thou to them as to Madian, and to Sisera;

as to Jabin at the brook of Kison.

¹¹ They were utterly destroyed at Aendor:

they became as dung for the earth.

¹² Make their princes as Oreb and Zeb,

and Zebee and Salmana; even all their princes:

¹³ who said, Let us take to ourselves the ^[1]sanctuary of God as an inheritance.

¹⁴ O my God, make them as a wheel;

as stubble before the face of the wind.

¹⁵ As fire which shall burn up a wood,

as the flame may consume the mountains;

¹⁶ so shalt thou persecute them with thy tempest,

and trouble them in thine anger.

¹⁷ Fill their faces with dishonour;

so shall they seek thy name, O Lord.

¹⁸ Let them be ashamed and troubled for evermore;

yea, let them be confounded and destroyed.

¹⁹ And let them know that thy name is Lord;

that thou alone art Most High over all the earth.

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