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And respect the persons of the wicked? Selah

³Judge the poor and fatherless;

Do justice to the afflicted and destitute.

⁴Rescue the poor and needy;

Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.

⁵They know not, neither do they understand;

They go about in darkness;

All the foundations of the earth are moved.

⁶I said: Ye are godlike beings,

And all of you sons of the Most High.

⁷Nevertheless ye shall die like men,

And fall like one of the princes.'

 

⁸Arise, O God, judge the earth;

For Thou shalt possess all the nations.

83 A Song, a Psalm of Asaph.

²O God, keep not Thou silence;

Hold not Thy peace, and be not still, O God.

³For, lo, Thine enemies are in an uproar;

And they that hate Thee have lifted up the head.

⁴They hold crafty converse against Thy people,

And take counsel against Thy treasured ones.

⁵They have said: 'Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation;

That the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.'

⁶For they have consulted together with one consent;

Against Thee do they make a covenant;

⁷The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites;

Moab, and the Hagrites;

⁸Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek;

Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;

⁹Assyria also is joined with them;

They have been an arm to the children of Lot. Selah

 

¹⁰Do Thou unto them as unto Midian;

As to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook Kishon;

¹¹Who were destroyed at En-dor;

They became as dung for the earth.

¹²Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb,

And like Zebah and Zalmunna all their princes;

¹³Who said: 'Let us take to ourselves in possession

The habitations of God.'

¹⁴O my God, make them like the whirling dust;

As stubble before the wind.

¹⁵As the fire that burneth the forest,

And as the flame that setteth the mountains ablaze;

¹⁶So pursue them with Thy tempest,

And affright them with Thy storm.

¹⁷Fill their faces with shame;

That they may seek Thy name, O LORD.

¹⁸Let them be ashamed and affrighted for ever;

Yea, let them be abashed and perish;

¹⁹That they may know that it is Thou alone whose name is the LORD,

The Most High over all the earth.

84 For the Leader; upon the Gittith. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.

²How lovely are Thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!

³My soul yearneth, yea, even pineth for the courts of the LORD;

My heart and my flesh sing for joy unto the living God.

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