1O God, don't sit idly by, silent and inactive!
2Don't you hear the tumult of your enemies? Don't you see what your arrogant enemies are doing?
3They devise crafty schemes against your people, laying plans 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."
5This 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.
9Do to them as you did to the Midianites or as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River.
10They were destroyed at Endor, and their decaying corpses fertilized the soil.
11Let their mighty nobles die as Oreb and Zeeb did. Let all their princes die like Zebah and Zalmunna,
12for they said, "Let us seize for our own use these pasturelands of God!"
13O my God, blow them away like whirling dust, like chaff before the wind!
14As a fire roars through a forest and as a flame sets mountains ablaze,
15chase them with your fierce storms; terrify them with your tempests.
16Utterly disgrace them until they submit to your name, O LORD.
17Let them be ashamed and terrified forever. Make them failures in everything they do,
18until they learn that you alone are called the LORD, that you alone are the Most High, supreme over all the earth.