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. 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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For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:

The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;

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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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Footnotes

  1. 137:7 The day Jerusalem fell to the Babylonians in 586 BC

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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Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.

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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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Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver them up to Edom:

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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. 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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Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Tyrus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and remembered not the brotherly covenant:

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