¹A song, a psalm of Asaph. O God, do not be silent. Do not ignore us. Do not be inactive, O God. ²For look, your enemies are making a commotion; those who hate you are hostile. ³They carefully plot against your people, and make plans to harm the ones you cherish. ⁴They say, “Come on, let’s annihilate them so they are no longer a nation. Then the name of Israel will be remembered no more.” ⁵Yes, they devise a unified strategy; they form an alliance against you.⁶It includes the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites, ⁷Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia, and the inhabitants of Tyre. ⁸Even Assyria has allied with them, lending its strength to the descendants of Lot. (Selah)⁹Do to them as you did to Midian— as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River. ¹⁰They were destroyed at Endor; their corpses were like manure on the ground. ¹¹Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, and all their rulers like Zebah and Zalmunna, ¹²who said, “Let’s take over the pastures of God.” ¹³O my God, make them like dead thistles, like dead weeds blown away by the wind. ¹⁴Like the fire that burns down the forest, or the flames that consume the mountainsides, ¹⁵chase them with your gale winds and terrify them with your windstorm. ¹⁶Cover their faces with shame, so they might seek you, O Lord. ¹⁷May they be humiliated and continually terrified. May they die in shame. ¹⁸Then they will know that you alone are the Lord, the Most High over all the earth.