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- A Song, — A Psalm of Asaph.
O God, let there be no silence to Thee, Be not silent, nor be quiet, O God.
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- For, lo, Thine enemies do roar, And those hating Thee have lifted up the head,
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- Against Thy people they take crafty counsel, And consult against Thy 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 any more.'
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- For they consulted in heart together, Against Thee a covenant they make,
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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 also is joined with them, They have been an arm to sons of Lot.
Selah.
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- Do to them as [to] Midian, As [to] Sisera, as [to] Jabin, at the stream 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 for ourselves The comely places of God.'
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- O my God, make them as a rolling thing, As stubble before wind.
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- As a fire doth burn a forest, And as a flame setteth hills on fire,
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- So dost Thou pursue them with Thy whirlwind, And with Thy hurricane troublest them.
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- Fill their faces [with] shame, And they seek Thy name, O Jehovah.
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- They are ashamed and troubled for ever, Yea, they are confounded and lost.
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- And they know that Thou — (Thy name [is] Jehovah — by Thyself,) [Art] the Most High over all the earth!
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