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Psalms 83
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1(84) For the end, a Psalm for the sons of Core, concerning the wine presses. How amiable are your tabernacles, O Lord of hosts!
1A song. A Psalm by Asaph. God, don’t keep silent. Don’t keep silent, and don’t be still, God.
2My soul longs, and faints for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh have exulted in the living god.
2For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.
3Yes, the sparrow has found himself a home, and the turtle-dove a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, [even] your altars, O Lord of hosts, my King, and my God.
3They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones.
4Blessed are they that dwell in your house: they will praise you evermore. Pause.
4“Come,” they say, “let’s destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”
5Blessed is the man whose help is of you, O Lord; in his heart he has purposed to go up
5For they have conspired together with one mind. They form an alliance against you.
6the valley of weeping, to the place which he has appointed, for [there] the law-giver will grant blessings.
6The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagrites;
7They shall go from strength to strength: the God of gods shall be seen in Sion.
7Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
8O Lord God of hosts, hear my prayer: listen, O God of Jacob. Pause.
8Assyria also is joined with them. They have helped the children of Lot. Selah.
9Behold, O God our defender, and look upon the face of your anointed.
9Do to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon;
10For one day in your courts is better than thousands. I would rather be an abject in the house of God, than dwell in the tents of sinners.
10who perished at Endor, who became as dung for the earth.
11For the Lord loves mercy and truth: God will give grace and glory: the Lord will not withhold good things from them that walk in innocence.
11Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,
12O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusts in you.
12who said, “Let’s take possession of God’s pasture lands.”