4. ‘Come,’ they say, ‘let us destroy them as a nation,so that Israel’s name is remembered no more.’
5. With one mind they plot together;they form an alliance against you –
6. the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,of Moab and the Hagrites,
7. Byblos, Ammon and Amalek,Philistia, with the people of Tyre.
8. Even Assyria has joined themto reinforce Lot’s descendants.