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- {A Song;
a Psalm of Asaph.} O God, keep not silence; hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God:
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- For behold, thine enemies make a tumult;
and they that hate thee lift up the head.
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- They take crafty counsel against thy people, and consult against thy hidden ones:
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- They say, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, and let the name of Israel be mentioned no more.
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- For they have consulted together with one heart: they have made an alliance together against thee.
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- The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagarites;
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- Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek;
Philistia, with the inhabitants of Tyre;
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- Asshur also is joined with them: they are an arm to the sons of Lot.
Selah.
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- Do unto them as to Midian;
as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the torrent of Kishon:
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- Who were destroyed at Endor;
they became as dung for the ground.
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- Make their nobles as Oreb and as Zeeb;
and all their chiefs as Zebah and as Zalmunna.
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- For they have said, Let us take to ourselves God's dwelling-places in possession.
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- O my God, make them like a whirling thing, like stubble before the wind.
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- As fire burneth a forest, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire,
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- So pursue them with thy tempest, and terrify them with thy whirlwind.
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- Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek thy name, O Jehovah.
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- Let them be put to shame and be dismayed for ever, and let them be confounded and perish:
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- That they may know that thou alone, whose name is Jehovah, art the Most High over all the earth.
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