English / ERV
Psalms 83
Easy-to-Read Version, 2006
- 1God, don’t keep quiet! Don’t close your ears! Please say something, God.
- 2Your enemies are getting ready to do something. Those who hate you will soon attack.
- 3They are making secret plans against your people. Your enemies are discussing plans against the people you love.
- 4They say, “Come, let us destroy them completely. Then no one will ever again remember the name Israel.”
- 5God, they have all joined together. They have united against you.
- 6[6-7] Their army includes the Edomites, Ishmaelites, Moabites, and Hagar’s descendants, the people of Byblos, Ammon, and Amalek, the Philistines, and the people of Tyre.
- 8Even the Assyrians have joined them. They have made Lot’s descendants very powerful. Selah
- 9God, defeat them just as you defeated Midian. Do what you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River.
- 10You destroyed the enemy at Endor, and their bodies rotted on the ground.
- 11Punish their leaders as you did Oreb and Zeeb. Do what you did to Zebah and Zalmunna.
- 12They said, “Let’s make this land our own— these fields of grass that belong to God!”
- 13Make them like weeds blown by the wind. Scatter them the way wind scatters straw.
- 14Be like a fire that destroys a forest or like a flame that sets the hills on fire.
- 15Chase them away with your blasts of wind; frighten them with your storms.
- LORD, cover them with shame until they come to you for help.