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New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].

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   1   Rest not, O God;
  O God, be neither silent nor still,
   2   for thy enemies are making a tumult,
  and those that hate thee carry their heads high.
   3   They devise cunning schemes against thy people
  and conspire against those thou hast made thy treasure:
     4   ‘Come, away with them,’ they cry,
    ‘let them be a nation no longer,
  let Israel's name be remembered no more.’
   5   With one mind they have agreed together
  to make a league against thee:
     6   the families of Edom, the Ishmaelites,
    Moabites and Hagarenes,
   7   Gebal, Ammon and Amalek,
    Philistia and the citizens of Tyre,
   8   Asshur too their ally,
  all of them lending aid to the descendants of Lot.
   9   Deal with them as with Sisera,
    as with Jabin by the torrent of Kishon,
   10   who fell vanquished as Midian ^note fell at En-harod, ^note
    and were spread on the battlefield like dung.
   11   Make their princes like Oreb and Zeeb,
    make all their nobles like Zebah and Zalmunna;
   12   for they said, ‘We will seize for ourselves
    all the pastures of God's people.’
   13   Scatter them, O God, like thistledown,
    like chaff before the wind.
   14   Like fire raging through the forest
  or flames which blaze across the hills,

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   15   hunt them down with thy tempest,
    and dismay them with thy storm-wind.
   16   Heap shame upon their heads, O Lord,
    until they confess the greatness of thy name.
   17   Let them be abashed, and live in perpetual dismay;
    let them feel their shame and perish.
   18   So let them learn that thou ^note alone art Lord,
    God Most High over all the earth.

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New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].