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God, punish them as you punished Midian.
    Do what you did to Sisera and Jabin at the River Kishon.[a]
10 You destroyed them at Endor.
    Their bodies remained on the ground, like dirt.
11 Do to their leaders
    what you did to Oreb and Zeeb.
Let their rulers die,
    like Zebah and Zalmunna.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 83:9 Jabin was king of Hazor. Sisera was the leader of his army. A woman (Jael) killed Sisera as he hid in her tent. Two leaders of Israel destroyed Jabin's army at the River Kishon. See Judges 4:1-24.
  2. 83:11 Oreb and Zeeb were rulers in Midian. People from Ephraim killed them. See Judges 7:24-25. Gideon killed Zebah and Zalmunna. See Judges 8:21. They were kings of Midian.

Do to them as you did to Midian,(A)
    as you did to Sisera(B) and Jabin(C) at the river Kishon,(D)
10 who perished at Endor(E)
    and became like dung(F) on the ground.
11 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb,(G)
    all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,(H)

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