PSALM 83: Against Gun Fire

No gun fire will hurt you if you read this psalm. Its prayer is the prayer under Psalm 16

Psalm 83

1 O Elohim, do not remain silent.
    Do not turn a deaf ear to me.
    Do not keep quiet, O El.

2 Look, your enemies are in an uproar.
    Those who hate you hold their heads high.
        
            and plot together against those you treasure.
        
            so that the name of Israel will no longer be remembered.”
        
        They form an alliance against you:
            
            Moab and Hagar,
            
            Philistia, along with those who live in Tyre.
            
                They helped the descendants of Lot. Selah
9 Do to them what you did to Midian,
    to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River.
10 They were destroyed at Endor.
    They became manure to fertilize the ground.
11 Treat their influential people as you treated Oreb and Zeeb.
    Treat all their leaders like Zebah and Zalmunna.
12 They said, “Let’s take Elohim’s pasturelands for ourselves.”
13 O my Elohim, blow them away like tumbleweeds,
    like husks in the wind.
14 Pursue them with your storms,
    and terrify them with your windstorms
15 the way fire burns a forest
    and flames set mountains on fire.
16 Let their faces blush with shame, O Yahweh,
    so that they must look to you for help.
17 Let them be put to shame and terrified forever.
    Let them die in disgrace
18 so that they must acknowledge you.
    Your name is Yahweh.
        You alone are Elyon of the whole earth.

PRAYER:

Psalm 16

1 Protect me, O El, because I take refuge in you.

2 I said to Yahweh,

    “You are my Adonay. Without you, I have nothing good.”

3 Those who lead holy lives on earth

    are the noble ones who fill me with joy.

4 Those who quickly chase after other gods multiply their sorrows.

    I will not pour out their sacrificial offerings of blood

        or use my lips to speak their names.

5 Yahweh is my inheritance and my cup.

    You are the one who determines my destiny.

6 Your boundary lines mark out pleasant places for me.

    Indeed, my inheritance is something beautiful.

7 I will praise Yahweh, who advises me.

    My conscience warns me at night.

8 I always keep Yahweh in front of me.

    When he is by my side, I cannot be moved.

9         That is why my heart is glad and my soul rejoices.

            My body rests securely

10 because you do not abandon my soul to the grave

    or allow your holy one to decay.

11 You make the path of life known to me.

    Complete joy is in your presence.

        Pleasures are by your side forever.