1En sang af Asaf.2Åh, Gud, sid ikke bare dér, vær ikke så passiv og tavs!3Hør, hvor dine fjender larmer. Se, hvor dine modstandere knejser.4De lægger snedige planer mod dit folk, udtænker ondt mod dem, du holder af.5„Lad os udslette hele folket,” siger de, „så Israel forsvinder totalt.”6De enes om en plan og slutter pagt imod dig,7beduiner fra Edom og Moab, ishmaelitter sammen med hagritter,8geballitter, ammonitter og amalekitter, filistre og folk fra Tyrus.9Selv Assyrien har sluttet sig til dem, de støtter nu Lots efterkommere.10Gør med dem, som du gjorde med midjanitterne. Du slog jo Sisera og Jabin ved Kishonfloden,[1]11de blev tilintetgjort ved En-Dor, deres kroppe rådnede på slagmarken.12Lad det gå deres ledere som Oreb og Ze’eb, deres fyrster som Zeba og Zalmunna.13De sagde: „Lad os erobre Guds græsgange og gøre dem til vores!”14Min Gud, lad dem blive som visne tidsler, som avner, der flyver bort i vinden.15Som ild, der æder sig gennem skoven, som flammer, der sætter bjerge i brand,16skal dit stormvejr forfølge dem, din hvirvelvind forfærde dem.17Lad dem blive ydmyget så dybt, at de forstår, hvem du er, Herre.18Gør dem skamfulde og skrækslagne, lad dem få en frygtelig død.19Vis dem, at du er Herren, den Almægtige, som hersker over hele jorden.
Salme 83
King James Version
1A Song or Psalm of Asaph. Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.2For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.3They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.4They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.5For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:6The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;7Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;8Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.9Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:10Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth.11Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:12Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.13O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.14As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;15So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.16Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.17Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:18That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.