Psalms 83 (MSG)

¹An Asaph psalm God, don't shut me out; don't give me the silent treatment, O God.

²Your enemies are out there whooping it up, the God-haters are living it up;

³They're plotting to do your people in, conspiring to rob you of your precious ones.

⁴"Let's wipe this nation from the face of the earth," they say; "scratch Israel's name off the books."

⁵And now they're putting their heads together, making plans to get rid of you.

⁶Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites,

⁷Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, Philistia and the Tyrians,

⁸And now Assyria has joined up, Giving muscle to the gang of Lot.

⁹Do to them what you did to Midian, to Sisera and Jabin at Kishon Brook;

¹⁰They came to a bad end at Endor, nothing but dung for the garden.

¹¹Cut down their leaders as you did Oreb and Zeeb, their princes to nothings like Zebah and Zalmunna,

¹²With their empty brags, "We're grabbing it all, grabbing God's gardens for ourselves."

¹³My God! I've had it with them! Blow them away! Tumbleweeds in the desert waste,

¹⁴charred sticks in the burned-over ground.

¹⁵Knock the breath right out of them, so they're gasping

¹⁶for breath, gasping, "God."

¹⁷Bring them to the end of their rope, and leave them there dangling, helpless.

¹⁸Then they'll learn your name: "God," the one and only High God on earth.