Psalm 83
John Milton
Be not thou silent now at length O God hold not thy peace, Sit not thou still O God of strength We cry and do not cease. For lo thy furious foes now *swell And *storm outrageously, *Jehemajun. And they that hate thee proud and fill Exalt their heads full hie. Against thy people they *contrive *Jagnarimu. *Their Plots and Counsels deep, *Sod. *Them to ensnare they chiefly strive *Jithjagnatsu gnal. *Whom thou dost hide and keep. *Tsephuneca. Come let us cut them off say they, Till they no Nation be That Israels name for ever may Be lost in memory. For they consult *with all their might, *Lev jachdau. And all as one in mind Themselves against thee they unite And in firm union bind. The tents of Edom, and the brood Of scornful Ishmael, Moab, with them of Hagars blood That in the Desart dwell, Gebal and Ammon there conspire, And hateful Amalec, The Philistims, and they of Tyre Whose bounds the sea doth check. With them great Asshur also bands And doth confirm the knot, All these have lent their armed hands To aid the Sons of Lot. Do to them as to Midian bold That wasted all the Coast. To Sisera, and as is told Thou didst to Jabins hoast, When at the brook of Kishon old They were repulst and slain, At Endor quite cut off, and rowl’d As dung upon the plain. As Zeb and Oreb evil sped So let their Princes speed As Zeba, and Zalmunna bled So let their Princes bleed. For they amidst their pride have said By right now shall we seize Gods houses, and will now invade *Their stately Palaces. *Neoth Elohim bears both. My God, oh make them as a wheel No quiet let them find, Giddy and restless let them reel Like stubble from the wind. As when an aged wood takes fire Which on a sudden straies, The greedy flame runs hier and hier Till all the mountains blaze, So with thy whirlwind them pursue, And with thy tempest chase; *And till they *yield thee honour due, *They seek thy Lord fill with shame their face. Name. Heb. Asham’d and troubl’d let them be, Troubl’d and sham’d for ever, Ever confounded, and so die With shame, and scape it never. Then shall they know that thou whose name Jehova is alone, Art the most high, and thou the same O’re all the earth art one.
