¹ A Song, a Psalm of Asaph. O God, keep not thou silence: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God. ² For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head. ³ They take crafty counsel against thy people, and consult together against thy hidden ones. ⁴ They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. ⁵ For they have consulted together with one consent; against thee do they make a covenant: ⁶ The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagarenes; ⁷ Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre: ⁸ Assyria also is joined with them; they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah ⁹ Do thou unto them as unto Midian; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon: ¹⁰ Which perished at En-dor; they became as dung for the earth. ¹¹ Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb; yea, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna: ¹² Who said, Let us take to ourselves in possession the habitations of God. ¹³ O my God, make them like the whirling dust; as stubble before the wind. ¹⁴ As the fire that burneth the forest, and as the flame that setteth the mountains on fire; ¹⁵ So pursue them with thy tempest, and terrify them with thy storm. ¹⁶ Fill their faces with confusion; that they may seek thy name, O LORD. ¹⁷ Let them be ashamed and dismayed for ever; yea, let them be confounded and perish: ¹⁸ That they may know that thou alone, whose name is JEHOVAH, art the Most High over all the earth.