For they would come up with their livestock and their tents; they would come (A)like locusts in number—both they and their camels could not be counted—so that they laid waste the land as they came in.

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They came up with their livestock and their tents like swarms of locusts.(A) It was impossible to count them or their camels;(B) they invaded the land to ravage it.

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12 And the Midianites and the Amalekites and (A)all the people of the East lay along the valley like locusts in abundance, and their camels were without number, (B)as the sand that is on the seashore in abundance.

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12 The Midianites, the Amalekites(A) and all the other eastern peoples had settled in the valley, thick as locusts.(B) Their camels(C) could no more be counted than the sand on the seashore.(D)

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10 Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their army, about 15,000 men, all who were left of all the army of (A)the people of the East, for there had fallen 120,000 men (B)who drew the sword.

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10 Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with a force of about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of the armies of the eastern peoples; a hundred and twenty thousand swordsmen had fallen.(A)

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32 (A)Their camels shall become plunder,
    their herds of livestock a spoil.
(B)I will scatter to every wind
    (C)those who cut the corners of their hair,
and I will bring their calamity
    from every side of them,
declares the Lord.

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32 Their camels(A) will become plunder,
    and their large herds(B) will be spoils of war.
I will scatter to the winds(C) those who are in distant places[a](D)
    and will bring disaster on them from every side,”
declares the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 49:32 Or who clip the hair by their foreheads

29 (A)Their tents and their flocks shall be taken,
    their (B)curtains and all their goods;
their camels shall be led away from them,
    and men shall cry to them: (C)‘Terror on every side!’

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29 Their tents and their flocks(A) will be taken;
    their shelters will be carried off
    with all their goods and camels.
People will shout to them,
    ‘Terror(B) on every side!’

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23 (A)They shall cut down her forest,
declares the Lord,
    though it is impenetrable,
because (B)they are more numerous than locusts;
    they are without number.

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23 They will chop down her forest,”
declares the Lord,
    “dense though it be.
They are more numerous than locusts,(A)
    they cannot be counted.

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A multitude of camels shall cover you,
    the young camels of (A)Midian and (B)Ephah;
    all those from (C)Sheba shall come.
(D)They shall bring gold and frankincense,
    and shall bring good news, the praises of the Lord.

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Herds of camels(A) will cover your land,
    young camels of Midian(B) and Ephah.(C)
And all from Sheba(D) will come,
    bearing gold and incense(E)
    and proclaiming the praise(F) of the Lord.

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20 (A)It will never be inhabited
    or lived in for all generations;
no (B)Arab will pitch his tent there;
    no (C)shepherds will make their flocks lie down there.

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20 She will never be inhabited(A)
    or lived in through all generations;
there no nomads(B) will pitch their tents,
    there no shepherds will rest their flocks.

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They say, “Come, (A)let us wipe them out as a nation;
    let the name of Israel be remembered no more!”
For they conspire with one accord;
    against you they make a covenant—
the tents of (B)Edom and (C)the Ishmaelites,
    (D)Moab and (E)the Hagrites,
(F)Gebal and (G)Ammon and (H)Amalek,
    (I)Philistia with the inhabitants of (J)Tyre;
(K)Asshur also has joined them;
    they are the strong arm of (L)the children of Lot. Selah

Do to them as you did to (M)Midian,
    as to (N)Sisera and Jabin at (O)the river Kishon,
10 who were destroyed at (P)En-dor,
    who became (Q)dung for the ground.
11 Make their nobles like (R)Oreb and Zeeb,
    all their princes like (S)Zebah and Zalmunna,
12 who said, (T)“Let us take possession for ourselves
    of the pastures of God.”

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“Come,” they say, “let us destroy(A) them as a nation,(B)
    so that Israel’s name is remembered(C) no more.”

With one mind they plot together;(D)
    they form an alliance against you—
the tents of Edom(E) and the Ishmaelites,
    of Moab(F) and the Hagrites,(G)
Byblos,(H) Ammon(I) and Amalek,(J)
    Philistia,(K) with the people of Tyre.(L)
Even Assyria(M) has joined them
    to reinforce Lot’s descendants.[a](N)

Do to them as you did to Midian,(O)
    as you did to Sisera(P) and Jabin(Q) at the river Kishon,(R)
10 who perished at Endor(S)
    and became like dung(T) on the ground.
11 Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb,(U)
    all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna,(V)
12 who said, “Let us take possession(W)
    of the pasturelands of God.”

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 83:8 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here.

17 And David struck them down from twilight until the evening of the next day, and not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men, who mounted camels and fled.

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17 David fought(A) them from dusk until the evening of the next day, and none of them got away, except four hundred young men who rode off on camels and fled.(B)

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21 Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, “Rise yourself and fall upon us, for as the man is, so is his strength.” And Gideon arose and (A)killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and he took (B)the crescent ornaments that were on the necks of their camels.

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21 Zebah and Zalmunna said, “Come, do it yourself. ‘As is the man, so is his strength.’” So Gideon stepped forward and killed them, and took the ornaments(A) off their camels’ necks.

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