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Obadiah 1:12

Bible in Basic English 1965

Do not see with pleasure your brother's evil day, the day of his fate, and do not be glad over the children of Judah on the day of their destruction, or make wide your mouth on the day of trouble.

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At his fate those of the west are shocked, and those of the east are overcome with fear.

If I was glad at the trouble of my hater, and gave cries of joy when evil overtook him;

I am able to see all my bones; their looks are fixed on me:

Let the false lips be shut, which say evil against the upright, looking down on him in their pride.

But they took pleasure in my trouble, and came together, yes, low persons came together against me without my knowledge; they never came to an end of wounding me.

He will be laughed at by the Lord, who sees that his day is coming.

Because it has been my saviour from all my trouble; and my eyes have seen the punishment of my haters.

The God of my mercy will go before me: God will let me see my desire effected on my haters.

My eyes have seen trouble come on my haters; my ears have news of the fate of the evil-doers who have come up against me.

Whoever makes sport of the poor puts shame on his Maker; and he who is glad because of trouble will not go free from punishment.

You have sent your servants with evil words against the Lord, and have said, With all my war-carriages I have come up to the top of the mountains, to the inmost parts of Lebanon; and its tall cedars will be cut down, and the best trees of its woods: I will come up into his highest places, into his thick woods.

All your haters are opening their mouths wide against you; making hisses and whistling through their teeth, they say, We have made a meal of her: certainly this is the day we have been looking for; it has come, we have seen it.

Have joy and be glad, O daughter of Edom, living in the land of Uz: the cup will be given to you in your turn, and you will be overcome with wine and your shame will be seen.

And you will see that I the Lord have had knowledge of all the bitter things which you have said against the mountains of Israel, saying, They have been made waste, they are given to us to take for our heritage.

You will become a waste, O Mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

For this cause the Lord has said: Truly, in the heat of my bitter feeling I have said things against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who have taken my land as a heritage for themselves with the joy of all their heart, and with bitter envy of soul have made attacks on it:

And now a number of nations have come together against you, and they say, Let her be made unclean and let our eyes see the fate of Zion.

And when he got near and saw the town, he was overcome with weeping for it,

Even so the tongue is a small part of the body, but it takes credit for great things. How much wood may be lighted by a very little fire!

For with high-sounding false words, making use of the attraction of unclean desires of the flesh, they get into their power those newly made free from those who are living in error;

These are the men who make trouble, ever desiring change, going after evil pleasures, using high-sounding words, respecting men's position in the hope of reward.

And there was given to him a mouth to say words of pride against God; and there was given to him authority to go on for forty-two months.

Say no more words of pride; let not uncontrolled sayings come out of your mouths: for the Lord is a God of knowledge, by him acts are judged.




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