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God, do not remain quiet; Do not be silent and, God, do not be still.

Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.

For behold, Your enemies make an uproar, And those who hate You have exalted themselves.

For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.

They make shrewd plans against Your people, And conspire together against Your treasured ones.

They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.

They have said, "Come, and let's wipe them out as a nation, So that the name of Israel will no longer be remembered."

They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.

For they have conspired together with one mind; They make a covenant against You:

For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:

The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites;

The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;

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

Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;

Assyria also has joined them; They have become a help to the children of Lot. Selah

Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.

Deal with them as with Midian, As with Sisera and Jabin at the river of Kishon,

Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:

Who were destroyed at En-dor, Who became like dung for the ground.

Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth.

Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, And all their leaders like Zebah and Zalmunna,

Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:

Who said, "Let's possess for ourselves The pastures of God."

Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.

My God, make them like the whirling dust, Like chaff before the wind.

O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.

Like fire that burns the forest, And like a flame that sets the mountains on fire,

As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;

So pursue them with Your heavy gale, And terrify them with Your storm.

So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.

Fill their faces with dishonor, So that they will seek Your name, LORD.

Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O Lord .

May they be ashamed and dismayed forever, And may they be humiliated and perish,

Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:

So that they will know that You alone, whose name is the LORD, Are the Most High over all the earth.

That men may know that thou, whose name alone is Jehovah , art the most high over all the earth.