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[1] O God, do not keep silence; do not hold your peace or be still, O God!

[2] For behold, your enemies make an uproar; those who hate you have raised their heads.

[3] They lay crafty plans against your people; they consult together against your treasured ones.

[4] They say, “Come, let us wipe them out as a nation; let the name of Israel be remembered no more!”

[5] For they conspire with one accord; against you they make a covenant—

[6] the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites,

[7] Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;

[8] Asshur also has joined them; they are the strong arm of the children of Lot. Selah.

[9] Do to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon,

[10] who were destroyed at En-dor, who became dung for the ground.

[11] Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,

[12] who said, “Let us take possession for ourselves of the pastures of God.”

[13] O my God, make them like whirling dust, like chaff before the wind.

[14] As fire consumes the forest, as the flame sets the mountains ablaze,

[15] so may you pursue them with your tempest and terrify them with your hurricane!

[16] Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek your name, O Lord.

[17] Let them be put to shame and dismayed forever; let them perish in disgrace,

[18] that they may know that you alone, whose name is the Lord, are the Most High over all the earth.

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