Psaumes 82

¹ A Song of a Psalm for Asaph.

² O God, who shall be compared to thee ? be not silent, neither be still, O God.

³ For behold, thine enemies have made a noise ; and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.

⁴ Against thy people they have craftily imagined a device, and have taken counsel against thy saints.

⁵ They have said, Come, and let us utterly destroy them out of the nation ; and let the name of Israel be remembered no more at all.

⁶ For they have taken counsel together with one consent : they have made a confederacy against thee ;

⁷ even the tents of the Idumeans, and the Ismaelites ; Moab, and the Agarenes ;

⁸ Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalec ; the Philistines also, with them that dwell at Tyre.

⁹ Yea, Assur too is come with them : they have become a help to the children of Lot. Pause.

¹⁰ Do thou to them as to Madiam, and to Sisera ; as to Jabin at the brook of Kison.

¹¹ They were utterly destroyed at Aendor : they became as dung for the earth.

¹² Make their princes as Oreb and Zeb, and Zebee and Salmana ; even all their princes :

¹³ who said, Let us take to ourselves the altar of God as an inheritance. Notesn1 Alex. sanctuary.

¹⁴ O my God, make them as a wheel ; as stubble before the face of the wind.

¹⁵ As fire which shall burn up a wood, as the flame may consume the mountains ;

¹⁶ so shalt thou persecute them with thy tempest, and trouble them in thine anger.

¹⁷ Fill their faces with dishonour ; so shall they seek thy name, O Lord.

¹⁸ Let them be ashamed and troubled for evermore ; yea, let them be confounded and destroyed.

¹⁹ And let them know that thy name is Lord ; that thou alone art Most High over all the earth.