1A song or psalm of Assaph. O God, take no rest for thyself: be not silent and keep not still, O God! 2For, lo, thy enemies make a tumult, and they that hate thee have lifted up their head. 3Against thy people they take crafty secret device, and they consult against those whom thou protectest. 4They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; and the name of Israel shall be remembered no more. 5For they have consulted cordially together; against thee they make a covenant: 6The tents of Edom, and the Ishmaelites: Moab, and the Hagarenes; 7Gebal, and ‘Ammon, and ‘Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre; 8Also Asshur is joined with them; they have become an arm unto the children of Lot. Selah. 9Do unto them as unto Midian; as to Sissera, as to Jabin, at the brook Kishon: 10Who were annihilated at ‘En–dor; they became as dung for the ground. 11Render them, their nobles, like ‘Oreb, and like Zeeb; yea, like Zebach and like Zalmunna’ all their princes; 12Who said, Let us conquer for ourselves the dwellings of God, 13O my God, render them like the thistle–down, like stubble before the wind. 14As the fire burneth up a forest, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire: 15So pursue them with thy storm, and with thy whirlwind do thou terrify them. 16Fill their faces with shame, that they may seek thy name, O Lord! 17Let them be made ashamed and terrified for ever and aye; yea, let them be put to the blush and perish: 18That they may know that thou, whose name is the Eternal, art by thyself alone, the Most High over all the earth.