Psalm 83

Prayer against Enemies

A song. A psalm of Asaph.(A)

God, do not keep silent.
Do not be deaf, God; do not be idle.(B)
See how Your enemies make an uproar;
those who hate You have acted arrogantly.[a](C)
They devise clever schemes against Your people;
they conspire against Your treasured ones.(D)
They say, “Come, let us wipe them out as a nation
so that Israel’s name will no longer be remembered.”(E)
For they have conspired with one mind;
they form an alliance[b] against You(F)
the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,(G)
Moab and the Hagrites,(H)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 83:2 Lit have lifted their head
  2. Psalm 83:5 Lit they cut a covenant

Remember, Lord, what the Edomites said
that day[a] at Jerusalem:
“Destroy it! Destroy it
down to its foundations!”(A)
Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction,
happy is the one who pays you back
what you have done to us.(B)
Happy is he who takes your little ones
and dashes them against the rocks.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 137:7 The day Jerusalem fell to the Babylonians in 586 b.c.

שׂ Sin

21 So rejoice and be glad, Daughter Edom,(A)
you resident of the land of Uz!(B)
Yet the cup(C) will pass to you as well;
you will get drunk and expose yourself.

ת Tav

22 Daughter Zion, your punishment is complete;
He will not lengthen your exile.[a]
But He will punish your iniquity, Daughter Edom,
and will expose your sins.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 4:22 Or not deport you again

15 Just as you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it became a desolation, so I will deal with you: you will become a desolation, Mount Seir, and so will all Edom in its entirety. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.

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“This is what the Lord God says: Certainly in My burning zeal I speak against the rest of the nations and all of Edom,(A) who took[a] My land as their own possession with wholehearted rejoicing and utter contempt(B) so that its pastureland became[b] plunder.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 36:5 Lit gave
  2. Ezekiel 36:5 Or contempt, to empty it of; Hb obscure

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