⁸ and they conspired all of them together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion therein.

³ They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones.

⁴ "Come," they say, "and let's destroy them as a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more."

⁵ For they have conspired together with one mind. They form an alliance against you.

⁶ The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab, and the Hagrites;

⁷ Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek; Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;

⁸ Assyria also is joined with them. They have helped the children of Lot. Selah.

⁹ Do to them as you did to Midian, As to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon;

¹⁰ Who perished at Endor, Who became as dung for the earth.

¹¹ Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb; Yes, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna;

¹ Why do the nations rage, And the peoples plot a vain thing?

² The kings of the earth take a stand, And the rulers take counsel together, Against Yahweh, and against his anointed,{The word "anointed" is the same as the word for "Messiah" or "Christ"} saying,

³ "Let's break their bonds apart, And cast away their cords from us."

⁹ Make an uproar, O you peoples, and be broken in pieces! And give ear, all you of far countries: gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces! Gird yourselves, and be broken in pieces!

¹⁰ Take counsel together, and it shall be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.

¹⁰ For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him, [say] all my familiar friends, those who watch for my fall; peradventure he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

¹² When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

¹³ There were more than forty people who had made this conspiracy.