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 Arise, O God, and rule the earth, * for you shall take all nations for your own.

O God, do not be silent; * do not keep still nor hold your peace, O God;

For your enemies are in tumult, * and those who hate you have lifted up their heads.

They take secret counsel against your people * and plot against those whom you protect.

They have said, “Come, let us wipe them out from among the nations; * let the name of Israel be remembered no more.”

They have conspired together; * they have made an alliance against you:

The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; * the Moabites and the Hagarenes;

Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; * the Philistines and those who dwell in Tyre.

The Assyrians also have joined them, * and have come to help the people of Lot.

Do to them as you did to Midian, * to Sisera, and to Jabin at the river of Kishon:

They were destroyed at Endor; * they became like dung upon the ground.

Make their leaders like Oreb and Zeëb, * and all their commanders like Zebah and Zalmunna,