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Psalm
83
[Recommended tunes: St Neot, Wigtown]
A
Song or Psalm of Asaph.
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1Keep not, O God, we thee entreat,
O keep not silence now:
Do
thou not hold thy peace, O God,
and still no more be thou.
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2For, lo, thine enemies a noise
tumultuously have made;
And
they that haters are of thee
have lifted up the head.
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3Against thy chosen people they
do crafty counsel take;
And
they against thy hidden ones
do consultations make.
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4Come, let us cut them off, said they,
from being a nation,
That
of the name of Isr'el may
no more be mention.
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5For with joint heart they plot, in league
against thee they combine.
6The tents of Edom, Ishm'elites,
Moab
's and Hagar's line;
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7Gebal, and Ammon, Amalek,
Philistines, those of
Tyre
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8And Assur join'd with them, to help
Lot's children they conspire.
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9Do to them as to Midian,
Jabin at Kison strand;
10And Sis'ra, which at En-dor fell,
as dung to fat the land.
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11Like Oreb and like Zeeb make
their noble men to fall;
Like
Zeba and Zalmunna like,
make thou their princes all;
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12Who said, For our possession
let us God's houses take.
13My God, them like a wheel, as chaff
before the wind, them make.
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14As fire consumes the wood, as flame
doth mountains set on fire,
15Chase and affright them with the storm
and tempest of thine ire.
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16Their faces fill with shame, O Lord,
that they may seek thy name.
17Let them confounded be, and vex'd,
and perish in their shame:
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18That men may know that thou, to whom
alone doth appertain
The
name Jehovah, dost most
high
o'er all the earth remain.
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