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| 1 A Song, A Psalm of Asaph. |
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| O God, let there be no silence to Thee, Be not silent, nor be quiet, O God. |
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| 2 For, lo, Thine enemies do roar, And those hating Thee have lifted up the head, |
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| 3 Against Thy people they take crafty counsel, And consult against Thy hidden ones. |
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| 4 They have said, 'Come, And we cut them off from [being] a nation, And the name of Israel is not remembered any more.' |
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| 5 For they consulted in heart together, Against Thee a covenant they make, |
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| 6 Tents of Edom, and Ishmaelites, Moab, and the Hagarenes, |
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| 7 Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia with inhabitants of Tyre, |
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| 8 Asshur also is joined with them, They have been an arm to sons of Lot. Selah. |
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| 9 Do to them as [to] Midian, As [to] Sisera, as [to] Jabin, at the stream Kishon. |
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| 10 They were destroyed at Endor, They were dung for the ground! |
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| 11 Make their nobles as Oreb and as Zeeb, And as Zebah and Zalmunna all their princes, |
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| 12 Who have said, 'Let us occupy for ourselves The comely places of God.' |
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| 13 O my God, make them as a rolling thing, As stubble before wind. |
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| 14 As a fire doth burn a forest, And as a flame setteth hills on fire, |
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| 15 So dost Thou pursue them with Thy whirlwind, And with Thy hurricane troublest them. |
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| 16 Fill their faces [with] shame, And they seek Thy name, O Jehovah. |
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| 17 They are ashamed and troubled for ever, Yea, they are confounded and lost. |
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| 18 And they know that Thou (Thy name [is] Jehovah by Thyself,) [Art] the Most High over all the earth! |
Alone is JEHOVAH – This title belongs only to the Father. E65, E66, E47; R379:5
The distinctive personal name of the Almighty Father, never applied to any other being. R1410:6
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