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O God, Do not keep quiet, Do not hold thy peace, Neither be thou still, O GOD!
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For lo! thine enemies, are tumultuous, And, they who hate thee, have lifted up the head;
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Against thy people, they craftily devise a secret plot, And conspire against thy treasured ones.
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They have said—Come, and let us wipe them out from being a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more.
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For they have taken counsel with one heart, Against thee—a covenant, would they solemnize—
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The tents of Edom, and the Ishmaelites, of Moab and the Hagarenes;
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Gebal and Ammon, and Amalek, The Philistines, with the dwellers in Tyre;
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Even Assyria hath joined herself with them, They have become an arm to the sons of Lot. [Selah.]
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Make them like Midian, like Sisera, like Jabin, by the torrent of Kishon;
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They perished at En-dor, They become manure for the soil!
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Make them—their nobles—like Oreb and like Zeeb, And, like Zebah and like Zalmunna, all their princes:
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Who said—Let us take a possession for ourselves, The pastures of God!
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O my God, make them, As whirling [dust], As chaff before a wind;
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As a fire burneth a forest,—And as a flame setteth mountains ablaze,
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So, wilt thou pursue them with thy tempest,—And, with thy storm-wind, wilt terrify them:
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Fill thou their faces with dishonour, That men may seek thy Name, O Yahweh;
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Let them turn pale, and be terrified to futurity, Yea let them blush, and perish:
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That men may know that, thou, Whose Name alone is Yahweh, Art Most High over all the earth.