For they have conspired with one mind;
they form an alliance[a] against You(A)
the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,(B)
Moab and the Hagrites,(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 83:5 Lit they cut a covenant

With one mind they plot together;(A)
    they form an alliance against you—
the tents of Edom(B) and the Ishmaelites,
    of Moab(C) and the Hagrites,(D)

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Remember, Lord, what the Edomites said
that day[a] at Jerusalem:
“Destroy it! Destroy it
down to its foundations!”(A)

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  1. Psalm 137:7 The day Jerusalem fell to the Babylonians in 586 b.c.

Remember, Lord, what the Edomites(A) did
    on the day Jerusalem fell.(B)
“Tear it down,” they cried,
    “tear it down to its foundations!”(C)

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The Lord says:

I will not relent from punishing Gaza(A)
for three crimes, even four,
because they exiled a whole community,
handing them over to Edom.

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This is what the Lord says:

“For three sins of Gaza,(A)
    even for four, I will not relent.(B)
Because she took captive whole communities
    and sold them to Edom,(C)

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The Lord says:

I will not relent from punishing Tyre(A)
for three crimes, even four,
because they handed over
a whole community of exiles to Edom
and broke[a] a treaty of brotherhood.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 1:9 Lit and did not remember

This is what the Lord says:

“For three sins of Tyre,(A)
    even for four, I will not relent.(B)
Because she sold whole communities of captives to Edom,
    disregarding a treaty of brotherhood,(C)

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