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
9. Do to them as you did to the Midianitesand as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River.
10. They were destroyed at Endor,and their decaying corpses fertilized the soil.
11. Let their mighty nobles die as Oreb and Zeeb did.Let all their princes die like Zebah and Zalmunna,
12. for they said, “Let us seize for our own usethese pasturelands of God!”
13. O my God, scatter them like tumbleweed,like chaff before the wind!
14. As a fire burns a forestand as a flame sets mountains ablaze,
15. chase them with your fierce storm;terrify them with your tempest.
16. Utterly disgrace themuntil they submit to your name, O lord.