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Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:.Which perished at En-dor: they became as dung for the earth.Do unto them as unto the Midianites as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:.

Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot.

Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre.

The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites of Moab, and the Hagarenes.

For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:.

They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.

They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.

For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.

Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.

It has been set to music, including works by Heinrich Schütz and Alexander von Zemlinsky. The psalm forms a regular part of Jewish, Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican and other Protestant liturgies.

: 405 : 7 It is generally seen as a national lament provoked by the threat of an invasion of Israel by its neighbors.

It is also the last of the "Elohist" collection, Psalms 42–83, in which the one of God's titles, Elohim, is mainly used. This psalm is the last of the Psalms of Asaph, which include Psalms 50 and 73 to 83. In Latin, it is known as "Deus quis similis erit tibi ne taceas". In the slightly different numbering system used in the Greek Septuagint and Latin Vulgate translations of the Bible, this psalm is Psalm 82. Psalm 83 is the 83rd psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in English in the King James Version: "Keep not thou silence, O God".