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They scheme with one mind,
    they have entered into a covenant against you:(A)
[a]The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,
    of Moab and the Hagrites,(B)

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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.

the tents of Edom(A) and the Ishmaelites,
    of Moab(B) and the Hagrites,(C)
Byblos,(D) Ammon(E) and Amalek,(F)
    Philistia,(G) with the people of Tyre.(H)

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