²⁰ But if you have not, let fire come out^(A) from Abimelek and consume you, the citizens of Shechem^(B) and Beth Millo,^(C) and let fire come out from you, the citizens of Shechem and Beth Millo, and consume Abimelek!”

¹⁵ “The thornbush said to the trees, ‘If you really want to anoint me king over you, come and take refuge in my shade;^(A) but if not, then let fire come out^(B) of the thornbush and consume the cedars of Lebanon!’^(C)

²² As they began to sing and praise, the Lord set ambushes^(A) against the men of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir who were invading Judah, and they were defeated. ²³ The Ammonites^(B) and Moabites rose up against the men from Mount Seir^(C) to destroy and annihilate them. After they finished slaughtering the men from Seir, they helped to destroy one another.^(D)

⁵⁶ Thus God repaid the wickedness that Abimelek had done to his father by murdering his seventy brothers. ⁵⁷ God also made the people of Shechem pay for all their wickedness.^(A) The curse of Jotham^(B) son of Jerub-Baal came on them.

Psalm 52^[a]

For the director of music. A maskil^[b] of David. When Doeg the Edomite^(A) had gone to Saul and told him: “David has gone to the house of Ahimelek.”