Deus quis similes? Ps.83.I.H.

The Israelites pray the Lord to deliver them from their enemies, both at home and far off: also that all such wicked people be stricken with his stormy tempests, that they may know his power.

Sing this as the 77 Psalm.
The first part The second part
Do not O Lord, refrain thy tongue,
in silence do not stay:
Withhold not Lord thyself so long,
nor make no more delay.
 
2 For why? behold thy foes, and see
how they do rage and cry:
And those that bear an hate to thee
hold up their heads on high.
 
3 Against thy folk they use deceit,
and craftily enquire:
For thine elect to lie in wait
their counsel doth conspire.
 
4 Come on say they, let us expel
and pluck these folk away:
So that the name of Israel
may utterly decay.
 
5 They all conspire within their hearts,
how they may thee withstand:
Against the Lord to take a part
they are in league and band.
 
6 The tents of all the Edomites,
the Ishmaelites also:
The Haggarens and Moabites,
with diverse others mo’e.
 
7 Gebal with Ammon, and likewise
doth Amalek conspire:
The Philistines against thee rise,
with them that dwell at Tyre.
 
8 And Assur eke is well a-paid,
with them in league to be:
And doth become a fence and aid
to Lot’s posterity.
 
9 As thou didst to the Midianites,
so serve them Lord each one:
As to Siser, and to Jabin,
beside the brook Kishon.
 
10 Whom thou in Endor didst destroy,
and waste them through thy might:
That they like dung on earth did lie,
and that in open sight.
11 Make them now and their Lords appear
like Zeeb and Oreb than.
As Zebah and Zalmunna were,
the Kings of Midian.
 
12 Which said, let us throughout the land
in all the coasts abroad,
Possess and take into our hand
the fair houses of God.
 
13 Turn them O God with storms as fast
as wheels that have no stay:
Or like the chaff which men do cast
with winds to fly away.
 
14 Like as the fire with rage and fume,
the mighty forests spills:
And as the flame doth quite consume
the mountains and the hills.
 
15 So let the tempest of thy wrath
upon their necks be laid:
And of thy stormy wrath and shower
Lord make them all afraid.
 
16 Lord bring them all I thee desire
to such rebuke and shame:
That it may cause them to inquire,
and learn to seek thy name,
 
17 And let them evermore daily
to shame and slander fall:
And in rebuke and obloquy
to perish eke withal.
 
18 That they may know and feel full well
that thou art called Lord:
And that alone thou dost excel
and reign throughout the world.

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