⁸ And they made designs, all of them together, to come and make an attack on Jerusalem, causing trouble there.

³ They have made wise designs against your people, talking together against those whom you keep in a secret place.

⁴ They have said, Come, let us put an end to them as a nation; so that the name of Israel may go out of man's memory.

⁵ For they have all come to an agreement; they are all joined together against you:

⁶ The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab and the Hagarites;

⁷ Gebal and Ammon and Amalek; the Philistines and the people of Tyre;

⁸ Assur is joined with them; they have become the support of the children of Lot. (Selah.)

⁹ Do to them what you did to the Midianites; what you did to Sisera and Jabin, at the stream of Kishon:

¹⁰ Who came to destruction at En-dor; their bodies became dust and waste.

¹¹ Make their chiefs like Oreb and Zeeb; and all their rulers like Zebah and Zalmunna:

¹ Why are the nations so violently moved, and why are the thoughts of the people so foolish?

² The kings of the earth have taken their place, and the rulers are fixed in their purpose, against the Lord, and against the king of his selection, saying,

³ Let their chains be broken, and their cords taken from off us.

⁹ Have knowledge, O peoples, and be in fear; give ear, all you far-off parts of the earth:

¹⁰ Let your designs be formed, and they will come to nothing; give your orders, and they will not be effected: for God is with us.

¹⁰ For numbers of them say evil secretly in my hearing (there is fear on every side): they say, Come, let us give witness against him; all my nearest friends, who are watching for my fall, say, It may be that he will be taken by deceit, and we will get the better of him and give him punishment.

¹² And when it was day, the Jews came together and put themselves under an oath that they would take no food or drink till they had put Paul to death.

¹³ And more than forty of them took this oath.