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Do Not Be Still, O God

¹ A Song. A Psalm of Asaph. O God, do not keep silent; do not hold Your peace; do not be still, O God.² See how Your enemies rage, how Your foes have reared their heads.³ With cunning they scheme against Your people and conspire against those You cherish,⁴ saying, “Come, let us erase them as a nation; may the name of Israel be remembered no more.”⁵ For with one mind they plot together, they form an alliance against You—⁶ the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, of Moab and the Hagrites,⁷ Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia with the people of Tyre.⁸ Even Assyria has joined them, lending strength to the sons of Lot. Selah

⁹ Do to them as You did to Midian, as to Sisera and Jabin at the River Kishon,¹⁰ who perished at Endor and became like dung on the ground.¹¹ Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, and all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,¹² who said, “Let us possess for ourselves the pastures of God.”¹³ Make them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind.¹⁴ As fire consumes a forest, as a flame sets the mountains ablaze,¹⁵ so pursue them with Your tempest, and terrify them with Your storm.¹⁶ Cover their faces with shame, that they may seek Your name, O LORD.¹⁷ May they be ever ashamed and terrified; may they perish in disgrace.¹⁸ May they know that You alone, whose name is the LORD, are Most High over all the earth.