⁵ “Simeon and Levi are two of a kind. They are men of violence and injustice.

⁷ Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce and cruel. Therefore, I will scatter their descendants throughout Israel.^[a]

³ They are full of craftiness and plot against your people, laying plans to slay your precious ones. ⁴ “Come,” they say, “and let us wipe out Israel as a nation—we will destroy the very memory of her existence.” ⁵ This was their unanimous decision at their summit conference—they signed a treaty to ally themselves against Almighty God— ⁶ these Ishmaelites and Edomites and Moabites and Hagrites; ⁷ people from the lands of Gebal, Ammon, Amalek, Philistia and Tyre; ⁸ Assyria has joined them too, and is allied with the descendants of Lot.^[a]

⁹ Do to them as once you did to Midian, or as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon, ¹⁰ and as you did to your enemies at Endor, whose decaying corpses fertilized the soil. ¹¹ Make their mighty nobles die as Oreb did, and Zeeb;^[b] let all their princes die like Zebah and Zalmunna, ¹² who said, “Let us seize for our own use these pasturelands of God!”

¹³ O my God, blow them away like dust; like chaff before the wind—