2 O God, who shall be compared to thee?

Be not silent, neither be still, O God.

3 For behold, thine enemies have made a noise;

And they that hate thee have lifted up the head.

4 Against thy people they have craftily imagined a device,

And have taken counsel against thy saints.

5 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.

6 For they have taken counsel together with one consent:

They have made a confederacy against thee;

7 Even the tents of the Edomites, and the Ishmaelites;

Moab, and the Hagrites;

8 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek;

The Philistines also, with them that dwell at Tyre.

9 Yea, Asshur too is come with them:

They have become a help to the children of Lot. Pause.

10 Do thou to them as to Midian, and to Sisera;

As to Jabin at the brook of Kishon.

11 They were utterly destroyed at En-dor:

They became as dung for the earth.

12 Make their princes as Oreb and Zeeb,

And Zebah and Zalmunna; even all their princes:

13 Who said, Let us take to ourselves the altar of God as an inheritance.

14 O my God, make them as a wheel;

As stubble before the face of the wind.

15 As fire which shall burn up a wood,

As the flame may consume the mountains;

16 So shalt thou persecute them with thy tempest,

And trouble them in thine anger.

17 Fill their faces with dishonor;

So shall they seek thy name, O Lord.

18 Let them be ashamed and troubled for evermore;

Yea, let them be confounded and destroyed.

19 And let them know that thy name is Lord;

That thou alone art Most High over all the earth.