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Apoteichisis

The Old Testament

Psalms 82

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Brenton 82:2

O God, who shall be compared to thee? be not silent, neither be still, O God.

Brenton 82:3

For behold, thine enemies have made a noise; and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.

Brenton 82:4

Against thy people they have craftily imagined a device, and have taken counsel against thy saints.

Brenton 82:5

They have said, Come, and let us utterly destroy them out of the nation; and let the name of Israel be remembered no more at all.

Brenton 82:6

For they have taken counsel together with one consent: they have made a confederacy against thee;

Brenton 82:7

even the tents of the Idumeans, and the Ismaelites; Moab, and the Agarenes;

Brenton 82:8

Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalec; the Philistines also, with them that dwell at Tyre.

Brenton 82:9

Yea, Assur too is come with them: they have become a help to the children of Lot. Pause.

Brenton 82:10

Do thou to them as to Madiam, and to Sisera; as to Jabin at the brook of Kison.

Brenton 82:11

They were utterly destroyed at Aendor: they became as dung for the earth.

Brenton 82:12

Make their princes as Oreb and Zeb, and Zebee and Salmana; even all their princes:

Brenton 82:13

who said, Let us take to ourselves the altar of God as an inheritance.

Source notes (1)
  • Alex. sanctuary.
Brenton 82:14

O my God, make them as a wheel; as stubble before the face of the wind.

Brenton 82:15

As fire which shall burn up a wood, as the flame may consume the mountains;

Brenton 82:16

so shalt thou persecute them with thy tempest, and trouble them in thine anger.

Brenton 82:17

Fill their faces with dishonour; so shall they seek thy name, O Lord.

Brenton 82:18

Let them be ashamed and troubled for evermore; yea, let them be confounded and destroyed.

Brenton 82:19

And let them know that thy name is Lord; that thou alone art Most High over all the earth.

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