God is importuned to confound the enemies of his people-Jehovah is the Most High over all the earth.

  1 Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.

  2 For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.

  3 They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.

  4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.

  5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:

  6 The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;

  7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;

  8 Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.

  9 Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:

  10 Which perished at En-dor: they became as dung for the earth.

  11 Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:

  12 Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.

  13 O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.

  14 As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;

  15 So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.

  16 Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O Lord.

  17 Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:

  18 That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.