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A Song of a Psalm for Asaph.
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O God, who shall be compared to thee? Be not silent, neither be still, O God.
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For behold, thine enemies have made a noise; And they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
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Against thy people they have craftily imagined a device, And have taken counsel against thy saints.
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They have said, Come, and let us utterly destroy them out of the nation; And let the name of Israel be remembered no more at all.
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For they have taken counsel together with one consent: They have made a confederacy against thee;
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Even the tents of the Edomites, and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagrites;
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Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; The Philistines also, with them that dwell at Tyre.
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Yea, Asshur too is come with them: They have become a help to the children of Lot. Pause.
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Do thou to them as to Midian, and to Sisera; As to Jabin at the brook of Kishon.
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They were utterly destroyed at En-dor: They became as dung for the earth.
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Make their princes as Oreb and Zeeb, And Zebah and Zalmunna; even all their princes:
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Who said, Let us take to ourselves the altar of God as an inheritance.
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O my God, make them as a wheel; As stubble before the face of the wind.
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As fire which shall burn up a wood, As the flame may consume the mountains;
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So shalt thou persecute them with thy tempest, And trouble them in thine anger.
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Fill their faces with dishonor; So shall they seek thy name, O Lord.
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Let them be ashamed and troubled for evermore; Yea, let them be confounded and destroyed.
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And let them know that thy name is Lord; That thou alone art Most High over all the earth.