UST PSA Chapter 83

83 A Levite from the clan of Asaph wrote song.

1 God, please take action to help us!

Please do that right away!

2 I ask this because the enemies who hate you

are defiantly approaching us with a large army.

3 They have plotted deviously together

to fight against us Israelites whom you cherish.

4 They have said to each other, “Come on, let us destroy them so completely

that no one will ever remember that Israel existed!”

5 They have all agreed to do this,

and they have made an alliance against you.

6 This army includes soldiers who are Edomites, Ishmaelites,

Moabites, Hagrites,

7 Gebalites, Ammonites, Amalekites,

Philistines, and Tyrians.

8 The Assyrians are helping them.

They have given military support to the Moabites and Ammonites

who are leading this army. Selah

9 Defeat them just as you helped Gideon defeat the Midianites,

and just as you helped Barak defeat Sisera,

the commander of the Canaanite king Jabin at the Kishon River!

10 You destroyed those Canaanites at En Dor,

and their dead bodies rotted on the ground.

11 Kill the leaders of this invading army

just as Gideon killed Oreb and Zeeb, the Midianite commanders.

Defeat all their rulers just as Gideon defeated Zebah and Zalmunna, the Midianite rulers.

12 They too had said, “Let us take for ourselves

the land where God’s people dwell.”

13 My God, please defeat them so that they run away

just as tumbleweed rolls away

and just as chaff flies away in the wind!

14 Just as a forest fire burns down trees

and flames burn up the dry vegetation on hillsides,

15 make them run away afraid

as if a great storm were driving them off.

16 Completely disgrace them

so that they will acknowledge who you are, Yahweh.

17 Embarrass them and make them always afraid.

Humiliate them until they die.

18 Then they will know that you alone, Yahweh,

are the Most High God who rules over everyone in the world.