---
title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: Psalms from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 83
verse_count: 18
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), Psalms, chap. 83, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# Psalms 83

*A prayer against them that oppress. A Song or Psalm of Asaph.*

**1** Keep not thou silence, O God; hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
**2** For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
**3** They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.
**4** 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.
**5** For they have consulted together with one consent; they are confederate against thee;
**6** The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
**7** Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;
**8** Assur also is joined with them; they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.
**9** Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kishon;
**10** Which perished at En-dor; they became as dung for the earth.
**11** Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb; yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna;
**12** Who said. Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.
**13** O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.
**14** As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire:
**15** So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm..
**16** Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O Lord.
**17** Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish;
**18** That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the Most High over all the earth.