1. God, don’t keep quiet! Don’t close your ears! Please say something, God.
2. Your enemies are getting ready to do something. Those who hate you will soon attack.
3. They are making secret plans against your people. Your enemies are discussing plans against the people you love.
4. They say, “Come, let us destroy them completely. Then no one will ever again remember the name Israel.”
5. God, they have all joined together. They have united against you.
6-7. Their army includes the Edomites, Ishmaelites, Moabites, and Hagar’s descendants, the people of Byblos, Ammon, and Amalek, the Philistines, and the people of Tyre.