Be not silent, O God
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A SONG. A PSALM OF ASAPH. O God, let there be no silence to You, || Do not be silent, nor be quiet, O God.
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For behold, Your enemies roar, || And those hating You have lifted up the head,
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They take crafty counsel against Your people, || And consult against Your hidden ones.
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They have said, “Come, and we cut them off from [being] a nation, || And the name of Israel is not remembered anymore.”
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For they consulted in heart together, || They make a covenant against You,
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Tents of Edom, and Ishmaelites, Moab, and the Hagarenes,
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Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia with inhabitants of Tyre,
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Asshur is also joined with them, || They have been an arm to sons of Lot. Selah.
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Do to them as Midian, || As Sisera, as Jabin, at the Brook of Kishon.
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They were destroyed at Endor, || They were dung for the ground!
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Make their nobles as Oreb and as Zeeb, || And as Zebah and Zalmunna—all their princes,
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Who have said, “Let us occupy the pastures of God for ourselves.”
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O my God, make them as a rolling thing, || As stubble before wind.
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As a fire burns a forest, || And as a flame sets hills on fire,
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So You pursue them with Your whirlwind, || And trouble them with Your windstorm.
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Fill their faces [with] shame, || And they seek Your Name, O YHWH.
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They are ashamed and troubled forever, || Indeed, they are confounded and lost.
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And they know that You—Your Name [is] YHWH—By Yourself [are] the Most High over all the earth!
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