Psalms 83:1-8

1O God, do not be silent! Do not be deaf. Do not be quiet, O God.

2Don’t you hear the uproar of your enemies? Don’t you see that your arrogant enemies are rising up?

3They devise crafty schemes against your people; they conspire against your precious ones.

4“Come,” they say, “let us wipe out Israel as a nation. We will destroy the very memory of its existence.”

5Yes, this was their unanimous decision. They signed a treaty as allies against you—

6these Edomites and Ishmaelites; Moabites and Hagrites;

7Gebalites, Ammonites, and Amalekites; and people from Philistia and Tyre.

8Assyria has joined them, too, and is allied with the descendants of Lot. Interlude