_A complaint to God of the enemies’ conspiracies.—A prayer against
them that oppress the church._
A Song or Psalm of Asaph.
Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O
God.
For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult; and they that hate thee have
lifted up the head.
They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted
against thy hidden ones.
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.
For they have consulted together with one consent; they are
confederate against thee:
The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab and the
Hagarenes;
Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines, with the inhabitants of
Tyre;
Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot.
Selah.
Do unto them as _unto_ the Midianites; as _to_ Sisera, as _to_ Jabin,
at the brook of Kison;
_Which_ perished at En-dor: they became _as_ dung for the earth.
Make their nobles like Oreb and like Zeeb; yea, all their princes as
Zebah and as Zalmunna:
Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.
O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
As fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on
fire,
So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy
storm.
Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.
Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to
shame, and perish:
That _men_ may know that thou, whose name alone _is_ JEHOVAH, _art_
the Most High over all the earth.
This Psalm is a prayer of the same nature as Psalm lxxx. as the same
mentioned names of the same nation show, who were bitter enemies unto
Israel. The same explanation, therefore, will suffice.