Zechariah 1:15 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 and I am extremely angry with the nations that are at ease, for while I was only a little angry, they made the disaster worse. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for while I was but a little displeased, they helped forward the affliction and disaster. American Standard Version (1901) And I am very sore displeased with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction. Common English Bible And I am exceedingly angry with those carefree nations. Though I was somewhat angry, they added to the violence.” Catholic Public Domain Version And, with a great anger, I am angry with the wealthy nations. Though I had been angry a little, truly they advanced further in evil. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And I am angry with a great anger with the wealthy nations: for I was angry a little, but they helped forward the evil. |
Our soul has had more than its fill of the scorn of those who are at ease, of the contempt of the proud.
Remember, O Lord, against the Edomites the day of Jerusalem’s fall, how they said, “Tear it down! Tear it down! Down to its foundations!”
For they persecute those whom you have struck down, and those whom you have wounded they attack still more.
In overflowing wrath for a moment I hid my face from you, but with everlasting love I will have compassion on you, says the Lord, your Redeemer.
Therefore all who devour you shall be devoured, and all your foes, every one of them, shall go into captivity; those who plunder you shall be plundered, and all who prey on you I will make a prey.
Thus says the Lord of hosts: The people of Israel are oppressed, and so also are the people of Judah; all their captors have held them fast and refuse to let them go.
I will repay Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea before your very eyes for all the wrong that they have done in Zion, says the Lord.
Mortal, because Tyre said concerning Jerusalem, “Aha, broken is the gateway of the peoples; it has swung open to me; I shall be replenished, now that it is wasted,”
Woe to those who are at ease in Zion and for those who feel secure on Mount Samaria, the notables of the first of the nations, to whom the house of Israel resorts!
Then they spoke to the angel of the Lord who was standing among the myrtle trees, “We have patrolled the earth, and the whole earth remains at peace.”
This shall be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the peoples who wage war against Jerusalem: their flesh shall rot while they are still on their feet, their eyes shall rot in their sockets, and their tongues shall rot in their mouths.
Then he cried out to me, “See, those who go toward the north country have set my spirit at rest in the north country.”