2. Don’t you hear the uproar of your enemies?Don’t you see that your arrogant enemies are rising up?
3. They devise crafty schemes against your people;they conspire against your precious ones.
4. “Come,” they say, “let us wipe out Israel as a nation.We will destroy the very memory of its existence.”
5. Yes, this was their unanimous decision.They signed a treaty as allies against you—
6. these Edomites and Ishmaelites;Moabites and Hagrites;
7. Gebalites, Ammonites, and Amalekites;and people from Philistia and Tyre.
8. Assyria has joined them, too,and is allied with the descendants of Lot.Interlude