HOLD not thy tongue, O God, keep not still silence: * refrain not thyself, O God.
 
For lo, thine enemies make a murmuring; * and they that hate thee have lift up their head.
 
They have imagined craftily against thy people, * and taken counsel against thy secret ones.
 
They have said, Come, and let us root them out, that they be no more a people, * and that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
 
For they have cast their heads together with one consent, * and are confederate against thee:
 
The tabernacles of the Edomites, and the Ishmaelites; * the Moabites, and Hagarenes;
 
Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; * the Philistines, with them that dwell at Tyre.
 
Assyria also is joined with them; * they have holpen the children of Lot.
 
But do thou to them as unto the Midianites; * unto Sisera, and unto Jabin at the brook of Kishon;
 
Who perished at Endor, * and became as the dung of the earth.
 
Make them and their princes like Oreb and Zeeb; * yea, make all their princes like as Zebah and Zalmunna;
 
Who say, Let us take to ourselves * the houses of God in possession.
 
O my God, make them like unto the whirling dust, * and as the stubble before the wind;
 
Like as the fire that burneth up the forest, * and as the flame that consumeth the mountains;
 
Pursue them even so with thy tempest, * and make them afraid with thy storm.
 
Make their faces ashamed, O LORD, * that they may seek thy Name.
 
Let them be confounded and vexed ever more and more; * let them be put to shame, and perish.
 
And they shall know that thou, whose Name is JEHOVAH, * art only the Most Highest over all the earth.

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