Psalms 82

¹A Canticle of Psalm to Asaph.

²O God who shall be like to thee? Hold not thy peace, neither be thou appeased, o God:

³for behold thine enemies have made a sound: they that hate thee have lifted up the head.

⁴They have taken malignant counsel upon thy people: and they have devised against thy Saints.

⁵They have said: Come, and let us destroy them out of the nation: and let the name of Israel be remembered no more.

⁶Because they have devised with one consent: they have together made a covenant against thee.

⁷The tabernacles of the Idumeians, and the Ismahelites, Moab, and the Agarens.

⁸Gebal, and Ammon, Amalec: the foreigners, with the inhabitants of Tyre.

⁹Yea and Assur also is come with them: they are made an aid to the children of Lot.

¹⁰Do to them as to Madian, and Sisara: as to Jabin in the torrent Cisson.

¹¹They perished in Endor: they were made as the dung of the earth.

¹²Put their Princes as Oreb, and Zeb, and Zebee, and Salmana. All their Princes:

¹³which have said: Let us possess the Sanctuary of God for an inheritance.

¹⁴My God put them as a wheel: and as stubble before the face of the wind.

¹⁵Even as fire that burneth a wood: & as a flame that burneth the mountains.

¹⁶So shalt thou pursue them in thy tempest: and in thy wrath thou shalt trouble them.

¹⁷Fill their faces with ignominy: and they will seek thy name, o Lord.

¹⁸Let them be ashamed, and troubled for ever and ever: and let them be confounded, and perish.

¹⁹And let them know that Lord is thy name, thou only the Highest in all the earth.