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O God, do not be silent! Do not be deaf. Do not be quiet, O God. |
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Don't you hear the uproar of your enemies? Don't you see that your arrogant enemies are rising up? |
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They devise crafty schemes against your people; they conspire against your precious ones. |
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"Come," they say, "let us wipe out Israel as a nation. We will destroy the very memory of its existence." |
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Yes, this was their unanimous decision. They signed a treaty as allies against you-- |
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these Edomites and Ishmaelites; Moabites and Hagrites; |
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Gebalites, Ammonites, and Amalekites; and people from Philistia and Tyre. |
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Assyria has joined them, too, and is allied with the descendants of Lot. Interlude |
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Do to them as you did to the Midianites and as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River. |
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They were destroyed at Endor, and their decaying corpses fertilized the soil. |
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Let their mighty nobles die as Oreb and Zeeb did. Let all their princes die like Zebah and Zalmunna, |
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for they said, "Let us seize for our own use these pasturelands of God!" |
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O my God, scatter them like tumbleweed, like chaff before the wind! |
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As a fire burns a forest and as a flame sets mountains ablaze, |
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chase them with your fierce storm; terrify them with your tempest. |
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Utterly disgrace them until they submit to your name, O LORD. |
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Let them be ashamed and terrified forever. Let them die in disgrace. |
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Then they will learn that you alone are called the LORD, that you alone are the Most High, supreme over all the earth. For the choir director: A psalm of the descendants of Korah, to be accompanied by a stringed instrument. |
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