Psalms 83 in plain modern English. New Ground English Translation.

A song. A psalm of Asaph.

God, don't stay silent. Don't hold back. Don't stay still, God.

Look — your enemies are in an uproar. Those who hate you are raising their heads.

They scheme craftily against your people and conspire against those you treasure.

They say, "Come, let's wipe them out as a nation, so the name Israel will never be remembered again."

They've made a pact together, with one mind — they've formed an alliance against you:

The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites,

Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia, with the people of Tyre.

Assyria, too, has joined them, lending strength to the descendants of Lot. Selah

Do to them what you did to Midian, what you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River —

who were destroyed at En-dor and became like dung on the ground.

Make their leaders like Oreb and Zeeb, all their rulers like Zebah and Zalmunna,

who said, "Let us seize the pastures of God for ourselves."

My God, make them like tumbling thistles, like chaff spinning in the wind.

Like fire burns through a forest, like a flame sets the mountains ablaze,

chase them with your storm, terrify them with your hurricane.

Cover their faces with disgrace so they will search for your name, Yahweh.

Let them be humiliated and terrified forever. Let them be disgraced and destroyed —

so they will know that you alone — your name is Yahweh — are the Most High over all the earth.