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Psalms 83
1 Holde not thy tongue O Lorde: kepe not styll scilence, refraine not thy selfe O Lorde.2 For beholde, thyne enemies make an vprore: and they that hate thee, haue lifted vp their head.3 They haue deuised shrewde counsell against thy people: and they haue consulted against thyne, whom thou defendest.4 They haue said, come, and let vs roote them out, that they be no more a people: and that the name of Israel may be no more in remembraunce.5 For they haue conspired all in one minde: & are confederate against thee.6 The pauilions of Edom and the Ismaelites: of Moab, and Hagerites,7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalec: the Philistines with the inhabitauntes of Tyre.8 Assur also is ioyned vnto them: they were a great ayde to the chyldren of Lot. Selah.
9 But do thou vnto them, as vnto Midian: as vnto Sisera, as vnto Iabin at the brooke Kishon.10 Whiche perished at Ein Dor: and became as the doung of the earth.11 Make them, their princes, [and] al their captaynes: lyke Oreb, and lyke Zeeb, and lyke Salmunna.12 Whiche sayd, let vs take to our selues: the houses of God in possession.13 O my Lorde, make them lyke vnto a wheele: and as chaffe before the winde.14 Lyke as a fire that burneth vp the wood: and as the flambe that consumeth the mountaynes.15 Persecute them euen so with thy tempest: and make them afrayde with thy storme.16 Make shame to appeare in their faces: that they may seeke thy name O God.17 Let them be confounded and astonied with feare euer more & more: let them be put to shame, and perishe.18 And let them knowe that thou in thy name God eternall art only: O thou the most highest ouer all the earth.