What better way to start this site than by a prayer for Israel and God’s chosen people as written in Psalm 83:

A song. A psalm of Asaph.

 ¹ O God, do not keep silent;
       be not quiet, O God, be not still.

 ² See how your enemies are astir,
       how your foes rear their heads.

 ³ With cunning they conspire against your people;
       they plot against those you cherish.

 ⁴ "Come," they say, "let us destroy them as a nation,
       that the name of Israel be remembered no more."

 ⁵ With one mind they plot together;
       they form an alliance against you-

 ⁶ the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,
       of Moab and the Hagrites,

 ⁷ Gebal, ^[^a^] Ammon and Amalek,
       Philistia, with the people of Tyre.

 ⁸ Even Assyria has joined them
       to lend strength to the descendants of Lot.
       Selah

 ⁹ Do to them as you did to Midian,
       as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon,

 ¹⁰ who perished at Endor
       and became like refuse on the ground.

 ¹¹ Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb,
       all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,

 ¹² who said, "Let us take possession
       of the pasturelands of God."

 ¹³ Make them like tumbleweed, O my God,
       like chaff before the wind.

 ¹⁴ As fire consumes the forest
       or a flame sets the mountains ablaze,

 ¹⁵ so pursue them with your tempest
       and terrify them with your storm.

 ¹⁶ Cover their faces with shame
       so that men will seek your name, O LORD.

 ¹⁷ May they ever be ashamed and dismayed;
       may they perish in disgrace.

 ¹⁸ Let them know that you, whose name is the LORD—
       that you alone are the Most High over all the earth.