1. A song, [or] Psalm of Asaph. Keep not thou silence, O God hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
2. For lo, thy enemies make a tumult and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
3. They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4. They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from [being] a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5. For they have consulted together with one consent they are confederate against thee,
6. The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7. Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;
8. Assur also is joined with them they have helped the children of Lot. Selah.
9. Do to them as [to] the Midianites; as [to] Sisera, as [to] Jabin, at the brook of Kison
10. [Who] perished at En-dor they became [as] dung for the earth.
11. Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb yes, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna
12. Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.
13. O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
14. As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;
15. So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.
16. Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.
17. Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yes, let them be put to shame, and perish
18. That [men] may know that thou, whose name alone [is] JEHOVAH, [art] the most high over all the earth.