^{1 Ref} > God, don't keep silent. Don't keep silent, And don't be still, God.

^{2 Ref} For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.

^{3 Ref} They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones.

^{4 Ref} "Come," they say, "and let's destroy them as a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more."

^{5 Ref} For they have conspired together with one mind. They form an alliance against you.

^{6 Ref} The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagrites;

^{7 Ref} Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;

^{8 Ref} Assyria also is joined with them. They have helped the children of Lot. Selah.

^{9 Ref} Do to them as you did to Midian, As to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon;

^{10 Ref} Who perished at Endor, Who became as dung for the earth.

^{11 Ref} Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb; Yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna;

^{12 Ref} Who said, "Let us take possession Of God's pasturelands."

^{13 Ref} My God, make them like tumbleweed; Like chaff before the wind.

^{14 Ref} As the fire that burns the forest, As the flame that sets the mountains on fire,

^{15 Ref} So pursue them with your tempest, And terrify them with your storm.

^{16 Ref} Fill their faces with confusion, That they may seek your name, Yahweh.

^{17 Ref} Let them be disappointed and dismayed forever. Yes, let them be confounded and perish;

^{18 Ref} That they may know that you alone, whose name is Yahweh, Are the Most High over all the earth.