82:3. For lo, thy enemies have made a noise: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head. 82:4. They have taken a malicious counsel against thy people, and have consulted against thy saints. 82:5. They have said: Come and let us destroy them, so that they be not a nation: and let the name of Israel be remembered no more. 82:6. For they have contrived with one consent: they have made a covenant together against thee, 82:7. The tabernacle of the Edomites, and the Ishmahelites: Moab, and the Agarens, 82:8. Gebal, and Ammon and Amalec: the Philistines, with the inhabitants of Tyre. 82:9. Yea, and the Assyrian also is joined with them: they are come to the aid of the sons of Lot. 82:10. Do to them as thou didst to Madian and to Sisara: as to Jabin at the brook of Cisson. 82:11. Who perished at Endor: and became as dung for the earth. 82:12. Make their princes like Oreb, and Zeb, and Zebee, and Salmana. All their princes, 82:13. Who have said: Let us possess the sanctuary of God for an inheritance. 82:14. O my God, make them like a wheel; and as stubble before the wind. 82:15. As fire which burneth the wood: and as a flame burning mountains: 82:16. So shalt thou pursue them with thy tempest: and shalt trouble them in thy wrath. 82:17. Fill their faces with shame; and they shall seek thy name, O Lord. 82:18. Let them be ashamed and troubled for ever and ever: and let them be confounded and perish. 82:19. And let them know that the Lord is thy name: thou alone art the most High over all the earth. Psalms Chapter 83 Quam dilecta. The soul aspireth after heaven; rejoicing in the mean time, in being in the communion of God's church upon earth. 83:1. Unto the end, for the winepresses, a psalm for the sons of Core. 83:2. How lovely are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts! 83:3. my soul longeth and fainteth for the courts of the Lord. My heart and my flesh have rejoiced in the living God. 83:4. For the sparrow hath found herself a house, and the turtle a nest for herself where she may lay her young ones: Thy altars, O Lord of hosts, my king and my God. 83:5. Blessed are they that dwell in thy house, O Lord: they shall praise thee for ever and ever. 83:6. Blessed is the man whose help is from thee: in his heart he hath disposed to ascend by steps, In his heart he hath disposed to ascend by steps, etc... Ascensiones in corde suo disposuit. As by steps men ascended to the temple of God situated on a hill; so the good Christian ascends towards the eternal temple by certain steps of virtue disposed or ordered within the heart: and this whilst he lives as yet in the body, in this vale of tears, the place which man hath set: that is, which he hath brought himself to: being cast out of paradise for his sin. 83:7. In the vale of tears, in the place which he hath set. 83:8. For the lawgiver shall give a blessing, they shall go from virtue to virtue: the God of gods shall be seen in Sion.