[1] God, don’t keep quiet! Don’t close your ears! Please say something, God.
[2] God, your enemies make plans against you, and they will soon attack.
[3] They make secret plans against your people. Your enemies are discussing plans against the people you love.
[4] The enemies are saying, ”Come, let us destroy them completely. Then no person will ever again remember the name 'Israel’.”
[5] God, all those people joined together to fight against you and the Agreement you made with us.
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[7] Those enemies joined together to fight us: Edom, the Ishmaelite people, Moab and Hagar’s descendants, Byblos, Ammon, the Amalekite people, the Philistine people, and the people living in Tyre. All those people joined together to fight us.
[8] Even the Assyrians joined those people. They made Lot’s descendants very powerful. selah
[9] God, defeat the enemy like you defeated Midian, like you defeated Sisera and Jabin near the Kishon River.
[10] You defeated them at En-Dor. And their bodies rotted on the ground.
[11] God, defeat the enemy’s leaders. Do what you did to Oreb and Zeeb. Do what you did to Zebah and Zalmunna.
[12] God, those people wanted to force us to leave your land!
[13] Make those people like a tumbleweed blown by the wind. Scatter those people like the wind scatters straw.
[14] Destroy the enemy like a fire destroys a forest, like a wild fire that burns the hills.
[15] God, chase those people away like ˻dust blown˼ by a storm. Shake them ˻and blow them away˼ like a tornado.
[16] God, teach those people so they may learn that they are really weak. Then they will want to worship your name!
[17] God, scare those people and make them ashamed forever. Disgrace them and destroy them.
[18] Then they will know that you are God. They will know your name is Yahweh. They will know that you, God Most-High, are the God of the whole world!