83:4 They say, “Come on, let’s annihilate them so they are no longer a nation! 1
Then the name of Israel will be remembered no more.”
83:5 Yes, 2 they devise a unified strategy; 3
they form an alliance 4 against you.
83:6 It includes 5 the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,
Moab and the Hagrites, 6
83:7 Gebal, 7 Ammon, and Amalek,
Philistia and the inhabitants of Tyre. 8
83:8 Even Assyria has allied with them,
lending its strength to the descendants of Lot. 9 (Selah)
1 tn Heb “we will cause them to disappear from [being] a nation.”
2 tn Or “for.”
3 tn Heb “they consult [with] a heart together.”
4 tn Heb “cut a covenant.”
5 tn The words “it includes” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
6 sn The Hagrites are also mentioned in 1 Chr 5:10, 19-20.
7 sn Some identify Gebal with the Phoenician coastal city of Byblos (see Ezek 27:9, where the name is spelled differently), though others locate this site south of the Dead Sea (see BDB 148 s.v. גְּבַל; HALOT 174 s.v. גְּבַל).
8 map For location see Map1-A2; Map2-G2; Map4-A1; JP3-F3; JP4-F3.
9 tn Heb “they are an arm for the sons of Lot.” The “arm” is here a symbol of military might.