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O God, Do Not Be Quiet

¹ O God, ^(C1)do not remain at rest;
^(C2)Do not be silent and, O God, do not be quiet.

² For behold, Your enemies ^(C1)roar,
And ^(C2)those who hate You have ^(C3)lifted up their heads.

³ They ^(C1)make shrewd plans against Your people,
And ^(F1)conspire together against ^(C2)Your ^(F2)treasured ones.

⁴ They have said, "Come, and ^(C1)let us wipe them out ^(F1)as a nation,
That the ^(C2)name of Israel be remembered no more."

⁵ For they have ^(F1)(C1)conspired together with one heart;
Against You they cut a covenant:

⁶ The tents of ^(C1)Edom and the ^(C2)Ishmaelites,
^(C3)Moab and the ^(C4)Hagrites;

^7 (C1)Gebal and ^(C2)Ammon and ^(C3)Amalek,
^(C4)Philistia with the inhabitants of ^(C5)Tyre;

^8 (C1)Assyria also has joined with them;
They have become ^(F1)the power of the ^(C2)children of Lot. ^Selah may mean Pause, Crescendo, Musical Interlude">(F2)Selah.

⁹ Do to them ^(C1)as to Midian,
As ^(C2)to Sisera, and Jabin at the river of Kishon,

¹⁰ Who were destroyed at En-dor,
Who ^(C1)were as dung for the ground.

¹¹ Make their nobles like ^(C1)Oreb and Zeeb
And all their princes like ^(C2)Zebah and Zalmunna,

¹² Who said, "^(C1)Let us possess for ourselves
The ^(C2)pastures of God."

¹³ O my God, make them like the ^(F1)(C1)whirling dust,
Like ^(C2)chaff before the wind.

¹⁴ Like ^(C1)fire that burns the forest
And like a flame that ^(C2)burns up the mountains,

¹⁵ So pursue them ^(C1)with Your tempest
And dismay them with Your storm.

^16 (C1)Fill their faces with disgrace,
That they may seek Your name, O Yahweh.

¹⁷ Let them be ^(C1)ashamed and dismayed forever,
And let them be humiliated and perish,

¹⁸ That they may ^(C1)know that ^(C2)You alone—Your name is Yahweh—
Are the ^(C3)Most High over all the earth.