1. Keep not, O God, we thee entreat,O keep not silence now:Do thou not hold thy peace, O God,and still no more be thou.
2. For, lo, thine enemies a noisetumultuously have made;And they that haters are of theehave lifted up the head.
3. Against thy chosen people theydo crafty counsel take;And they against thy hidden onesdo consultations make.
4. Come, let us cut them off, said they,from being a nation,That of the name of Isr'el mayno more be mention.
5. For with joint heart they plot, in leagueagainst thee they combine.
6. The tents of Edom, Ishm'elites,Moab's and Hagar's line;
7. Gebal, and Ammon, Amalek,Philistines, those of Tyre;
8. And Assur join'd with them, to helpLot's children they conspire.
9. Do to them as to Midian,Jabin at Kison strand;
10. And Sis'ra, which at En-dor fell,as dung to fat the land.
11. Like Oreb and like Zeeb maketheir noble men to fall;Like Zeba and Zalmunna like,make thou their princes all;
12. Who said, For our possessionlet us God's houses take.
13. My God, them like a wheel, as chaffbefore the wind, them make.
14. As fire consumes the wood, as flamedoth mountains set on fire,
15. Chase and affright them with the stormand tempest of thine ire.
16. Their faces fill with shame, O Lord,that they may seek thy name.
17. Let them confounded be, and vex'd,and perish in their shame:
18. That men may know that thou, to whomalone doth appertainThe name JEHOVAH, dost most higho'er all the earth remain.