4. They say, “Come on, let’s annihilate them so they are no longer a nation!Then the name of Israel will be remembered no more.”
5. Yes, they devise a unified strategy;they form an alliance against you.
6. It includes the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,Moab and the Hagrites,
7. Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek,Philistia and the inhabitants of Tyre.
8. Even Assyria has allied with them,lending its 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 Kishon River!
10. They were destroyed at Endor;their corpses were like manure on the ground.
11. Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb,and all their rulers like Zebah and Zalmunna,
12. who said, “Let’s take over the pastures of God!”
13. O my God, make them like dead thistles,like dead weeds blown away by the wind!
14. Like the fire that burns down the forest,or the flames that consume the mountainsides,