83:2 For look, your enemies are making a commotion;
those who hate you are hostile. 1
83:3 They carefully plot 2 against your people,
and make plans to harm 3 the ones you cherish. 4
83:4 They say, “Come on, let’s annihilate them so they are no longer a nation! 5
Then the name of Israel will be remembered no more.”
83:5 Yes, 6 they devise a unified strategy; 7
they form an alliance 8 against you.
83:6 It includes 9 the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,
Moab and the Hagrites, 10
83:7 Gebal, 11 Ammon, and Amalek,
Philistia and the inhabitants of Tyre. 12
83:8 Even Assyria has allied with them,
lending its strength to the descendants of Lot. 13 (Selah)
83:9 Do to them as you did to Midian 14 –
as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River! 15
83:10 They were destroyed at Endor; 16
their corpses were like manure 17 on the ground.
83:11 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, 18
and all their rulers like Zebah and Zalmunna, 19
83:12 who said, 20 “Let’s take over 21 the pastures of God!”
83:13 O my God, make them like dead thistles, 22
like dead weeds blown away by 23 the wind!