1. O God, do not rest silently. Do not keep silent or be still, O God.
2. For look, your enemies roar, and those who hate you have lifted their head.
3. They devise cunning schemes against your people, and consult together against your protected ones.
4. They say, “Come, let us annihilate them from being a nation, so that the name of Israel will be remembered no more.”
5. For they have consulted together with a unified purpose. They have made a covenant against you:
6. the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites,
7. Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, Philistia, with the inhabitants of Tyre.
8. Assyria also has joined with them. They provide help to the children of Lot. Selah
9. Do to them as you did with Midian, as with Sisera, as with Jabin at the wadi of Kishon.
10. They were destroyed at En-dor; they became dung for the ground.
11. Make their leaders like Oreb and Zeeb, and all their chiefs like Zebah and Zalmunna,
12. who said, “Let us take as our possession the pastures of God.”