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83:1 [A song or Psalme of Asaph.] Keepe not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.  
83:2 For loe, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee, haue lift vp the head.  
83:3 They haue taken craftie counsell against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.  
83:4 They haue said, Come, and let vs cut them off from being a nation: that the name of Israel may bee no more in remembrance.  
83:5 For they haue consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee. Margin Note
83:6 The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites: of Moab, and the Hagarens.  
83:7 Gebal and Ammon, and Amalek: the Philistines, with the inhabitants of Tyre.  
83:8 Assur also is ioyned with them: they haue holpen the children of Lot. Selah. Margin Note
83:9 Doe vnto them as vnto the Midianites: as to Sisera, as to Iabin, at the brooke of Kison:  
83:10 Which perished at En-dor: they became as dung for the earth.  
83:11 Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:  
83:12 Who sayd, Let vs take to our selues, the houses of God in possession.  
83:13 O my God, make them like a wheele: as the stubble before the wind.  
83:14 As the fire burneth a wood: and as the flame setteth the mountaines on fire:  
83:15 So persecute them with thy tempest: and make them afraid with thy storme.  
83:16 Fill their faces with shame: that they may seeke thy name, O Lord.  
83:17 Let them be confounded and troubled for euer: yea let them be put to shame, and perish:  
83:18 That men may knowe, that thou, whose name alone is IEHOVAH: art the most High ouer all the earth.