Psalms 83
1Unto the end. For the wine and oil presses. A Psalm to the sons of Korah.
2How beloved are your tabernacles, O Lord of hosts!
3My soul longs and faints for the courts of the Lord. My heart and my flesh have exulted in the living God.
4For even the sparrow has found a home for himself, and the turtle-dove a nest for herself, where she may lay her young: your altars, O Lord of hosts, my king and my God.
5Blessed are those who dwell in your house, O Lord. They will praise you from age to age.
6Blessed is the man whose help is from you. In his heart, he is disposed to ascend
7from the valley of tears, from the place which he has determined.
8For even the lawgiver will provide a blessing; they will go from virtue to virtue. The God of gods will be seen in Zion.
9O Lord, God of hosts, hear my prayer. Pay attention, O God of Jacob.
10O God, gaze upon our protector, and look upon the face of your Christ.
11For one day in your courts is better than thousands elsewhere. I have chosen to be lowly in the house of my God, rather than to dwell in the tabernacles of sinners.
12For God loves mercy and truth. The Lord will give grace and glory.
13He will not withhold good things from those who walk in innocence. O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man who hopes in you.
1Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
2For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
3They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:
6The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;
8Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.
9Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:
10Which perished at En–dor: they became as dung for the earth.
11Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:
12Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.
13O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
14As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;
15So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.
16Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O Lord.
17Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:
18That men may know that thou, whose name alone is Jehovah, art the most high over all the earth.