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Simeon and Levi are brothers;
their knives are vicious weapons.(A)

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Their anger is cursed, for it is strong,
and their fury, for it is cruel!
I will disperse them throughout Jacob
and scatter them throughout Israel.(A)

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They devise clever schemes against your people;
they conspire against your treasured ones.(A)
They say, ‘Come, let’s wipe them out as a nation
so that Israel’s name will no longer be remembered.’(B)
For they have conspired with one mind;
they form an alliance[a] against you(C)
the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,(D)
Moab and the Hagrites,(E)
Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek,(F)
Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre.(G)
Even Assyria has joined them;
they lend support[b] to the sons of Lot.[c](H) Selah

Deal with them as you did with Midian,(I)
as you did with Sisera
and Jabin at the River Kishon.(J)
10 They were destroyed at En-dor;
they became manure for the ground.(K)
11 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb,(L)
and all their tribal leaders like Zebah and Zalmunna,(M)
12 who said, ‘Let’s seize God’s pastures for ourselves.’(N)

13 Make them like tumbleweed, my God,
like straw before the wind.(O)

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Footnotes

  1. 83:5 Lit they cut a covenant
  2. 83:8 Lit they are an arm
  3. 83:8 = Moab and Ammon