Obadiah 1:12 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹² But you should not have gloated over the day of your brother in the day of his misfortune; you should not have rejoiced over the people of Judah in the day of their ruin; you should not have boasted in the day of distress.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² But you should not have gloated over your brother's day, the day when his misfortune came and he was made a stranger; you should not have rejoiced over the sons of Judah in the day of their ruin; you should not have spoken arrogantly in the day of their distress.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² But look not thou on the day of thy brother in the day of his disaster, and rejoice not over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither speak proudly in the day of distress.

Common English Bible

¹² But you should have taken no pleasure over your brother on the day of his misery; you shouldn’t have rejoiced over the people of Judah on the day of their devastation; you shouldn’t have bragged on their day of hardship.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² But you shall not show disdain for the day of your brother in the day of his sojourn. And you shall not rejoice over the sons of Judah in the day of their perdition. And you shall not magnify your mouth in the day of anguish.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² But thou shalt not look on in the day of thy brother, in the day of his leaving his country: and thou shalt not rejoice over the children of Juda, in the day of their destruction: and thou shalt not magnify thy mouth in the day of distress.

Obadiah 1:12 Cross References

Job 18:20

They of the west are appalled at his day, and horror seizes them of the east.

Job 31:29

“If I have rejoiced at the ruin of him that hated me, or exulted when evil overtook him

Psalm 22:17

I can count all my bones— they stare and gloat over me;

Psalm 31:18

Let the lying lips be dumb, which speak insolently against the righteous in pride and contempt.

Psalm 35:15

But at my stumbling they gathered in glee, they gathered together against me; cripples whom I knew not slandered me without ceasing;

Psalm 37:13

but the Lord laughs at the wicked, for he sees that his day is coming.

Psalm 54:7

For thou hast delivered me from every trouble, and my eye has looked in triumph on my enemies.

Psalm 59:10

My God in his steadfast love will meet me; my God will let me look in triumph on my enemies.

Psalm 92:11

My eyes have seen the downfall of my enemies, my ears have heard the doom of my evil assailants.

Proverbs 17:5

He who mocks the poor insults his Maker; he who is glad at calamity will not go unpunished.

Isaiah 37:24

By your servants you have mocked the Lord, and you have said, With my many chariots I have gone up the heights of the mountains, to the far recesses of Lebanon; I felled its tallest cedars, its choicest cypresses; I came to its remotest height, its densest forest.

Lamentations 2:16

All your enemies rail against you; they hiss, they gnash their teeth, they cry: “We have destroyed her! Ah, this is the day we longed for; now we have it; we see it!”

Lamentations 4:21

Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, dweller in the land of Uz; but to you also the cup shall pass; you shall become drunk and strip yourself bare.

Ezekiel 35:12

And you shall know that I, the Lord, have heard all the revilings which you uttered against the mountains of Israel, saying, ‘They are laid desolate, they are given us to devour.’

Ezekiel 35:15

As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so I will deal with you; you shall be desolate, Mount Seir, and all Edom, all of it. Then they will know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 36:5

therefore thus says the Lord God: I speak in my hot jealousy against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who gave my land to themselves as a possession with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, that they might possess it and plunder it.

Micah 4:11

Now many nations are assembled against you, saying, “Let her be profaned, and let our eyes gaze upon Zion.”

Luke 19:41

And when he drew near and saw the city he wept over it,

James 3:5

So the tongue is a little member and boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by a small fire!

2 Peter 2:18

For, uttering loud boasts of folly, they entice with licentious passions of the flesh men who have barely escaped from those who live in error.

Jude 1:16

These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own passions, loud-mouthed boasters, flattering people to gain advantage.

Revelation 13:5

And the beast was given a mouth uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months;

1 Samuel 2:3

Talk no more so very proudly, let not arrogance come from your mouth; for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.