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[a]The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,
    of Moab and the Hagrites,(A)
Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek,(B)
    Philistia and the inhabitants of Tyre.(C)
Assyria, too, in league with them,
    backs the descendants of Lot.
Selah

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Footnotes

  1. 83:7–9 Apart from the Assyrians, all the nations listed here were neighbors of Israel. The Hagrites are a tribe of the desert regions east of Ammon and Moab (1 Chr 5:10, 19–22). Gebal is the Phoenician city of Byblos or perhaps a mountain region south of the Dead Sea. The descendants of Lot are Moab and Edom (Gn 19:36–38 and Dt 2:9). These nations were never united against Israel in the same period; the Psalm has lumped them all together.

Byblos,(A) Ammon(B) and Amalek,(C)
    Philistia,(D) with the people of Tyre.(E)
Even Assyria(F) has joined them
    to reinforce Lot’s descendants.[a](G)

Do to them as you did to Midian,(H)
    as you did to Sisera(I) and Jabin(J) at the river Kishon,(K)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 83:8 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here.