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God, do not be silent!
Do not ignore us and remain unmoved, God.
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Look, your enemies are making a commotion,
and those who hate you have raised their heads.
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They make shrewd plans against your people
and plan together against your protected ones.
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They have said, "Come, and let us destroy them as a nation.
Then the name of Israel will no longer be remembered."
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They schemed together with one strategy;
they made an alliance against you—
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the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,
of Moab and the Hagrites,
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Byblos,
Ammon, Amalek;
and also Philistia and the inhabitants of Tyre.
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Assyria also has joined with them;
they have become an arm for the descendants of Lot.
Selah
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Do to them as you did to Midian,
as you did to Sisera and to Jabin at the Kishon River.
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They perished at Endor
and became like manure for the earth.
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Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb,
and all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna.
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They said, "Let us take for ourselves
the pastures of God."
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My God, make them like the whirling dust,
like chaff before the wind,
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like the fire that burns the forest,
and like the flame that sets the mountains on fire.
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Chase them with your strong wind,
and terrify them with your windstorm.
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Fill their faces with shame
so that they might seek your name, Yahweh.
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May they be put to shame and be terrified forever;
may they perish in disgrace.
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Then they will know that you alone,
whose name is Yahweh,
are the Most High over all the earth.