*A song, a psalm of Asaph. O God, do not be silent! Do not ignore us! Do not be inactive, O God!*For look, your enemies are making a commotion; those who hate you are hostile. *They carefully plot against your people, and make plans to harm the ones you cherish. *They say, “Come on, let’s annihilate them so they are no longer a nation! Then the name of Israel will be remembered no more.”*Yes, they devise a unified strategy; they form an alliance against you.*It includes the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites, *Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia and the inhabitants of Tyre. *Even Assyria has allied with them, lending its strength to the descendants of Lot. (Selah)*Do to them as you did to Midian – as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River! *They were destroyed at Endor; their corpses were like manure on the ground.*Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, and all their rulers like Zebah and Zalmunna, *who said, “Let’s take over the pastures of God!”*O my God, make them like dead thistles, like dead weeds blown away by the wind!*Like the fire that burns down the forest, or the flames that consume the mountainsides, *chase them with your gale winds, and terrify them with your windstorm.*Cover their faces with shame, so they might seek you, O Lord.*May they be humiliated and continually terrified! May they die in shame! *Then they will know that you alone are the Lord, the sovereign king over all the earth.
