Psalms 82

1 A Song of a Psalm for Asaph. 2 O God, who shall be compared to thee? Be not silent, neither be still, O God. 3 For behold, thine enemies have made a noise; And they that hate thee have lifted up the head. 4 Against thy people they have craftily imagined a device, And have taken counsel against thy saints. 5 They have said, Come, and let us utterly destroy them out of the nation; And let the name of Israel be remembered no more at all. 6 For they have taken counsel together with one consent: They have made a confederacy against thee; 7 Even the tents of the Edomites, and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagrites; 8 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; The Philistines also, with them that dwell at Tyre. 9 Yea, Asshur too is come with them: They have become a help to the children of Lot. Pause. 10 Do thou to them as to Midian, and to Sisera; As to Jabin at the brook of Kishon. 11 They were utterly destroyed at En-dor: They became as dung for the earth. 12 Make their princes as Oreb and Zeeb, And Zebah and Zalmunna; even all their princes: 13 Who said, Let us take to ourselves the altar of God as an inheritance. 14 O my God, make them as a wheel; As stubble before the face of the wind. 15 As fire which shall burn up a wood, As the flame may consume the mountains; 16 So shalt thou persecute them with thy tempest, And trouble them in thine anger. 17 Fill their faces with dishonor; So shall they seek thy name, O Lord. 18 Let them be ashamed and troubled for evermore; Yea, let them be confounded and destroyed. 19 And let them know that thy name is Lord; That thou alone art Most High over all the earth.