Many people view Psalm 83 as a prophecy about a war involving the tribes listed or their descendants.
5 With one mind they plot together;
they form an alliance against you— 6 the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,
of Moab and the Hagrites, 7 Byblos, Ammon and Amalek,
Philistia, with the people of Tyre. 8 Even Assyria has joined them
to reinforce Lot’s descendants.
Some insist that such an alliance has never attacked Israel and is therefore an event that will occur most likely before the Great Middle East war described in, for example, Ezekiel 38-39. What hermeneutical principles if any can be applied to the Psalm even in the larger context of the prophetic Psalms to indicate that it is a prophecy and not simply an imprecatory prayer with a soteriological perspective?
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