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O God, do not remain silent
Do not turn a deaf ear
Do not stand aloof, O God
For the enemies are near

See how Your enemies growl
How Your foes rear their heads
With cunning they conspire against Your people
They plot against those You cherish, pose their threats

“Come,” they say, “let us destroy them as a nation
So that Israel’s name is remembered no more”
With one mind they plot together
They form an alliance against you, and this is for sure—

Byblos, Ammon and Amalek
The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites
Philistia, with the people of Tyre
The tens of Moab and the Hagrites

Even Assyria has joined them
To reinforce Lot’s descendants in their mission
Do to them as You did to Midian
As You did to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon

As You did to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon
Who perished at Endor
And became like dung on the ground
Forgetting their lost splendor

Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb
All their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna, O Lord
Who said, “Let us take possession
Of the pasturelands of God”

Make them like tumbleweed, my God
Like chaff before the wind
Make them like shade in the mirror, my Lord
Like the shade which is never seen

As a flame sets the mountains ablaze
Or fire consumes the forest
So terrify them with your storm
And pursue them with your tempest

Cover their faces with shame, Lord
So that they will seek Your name
May they ever be ashamed and dismayed
May they perish in disgrace, please may

Let them know that You whose name is the Lord—
That you alone are the Most High
The Most High over all the earth
Lord, or God, who is always right!