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Obadiah 1:12

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Do not  gloat over your brother in the day of his calamity; do not rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their destruction; do not boastfully mock  , in the day of distress.

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Many nations have now assembled against you; they say, ‘Let her be defiled, and let us feast our eyes on Zion.’


Just as you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it became a desolation, I will deal the same way with you: you will become a desolation, Mount Seir, and so will all Edom in its entirety. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”


The one who mocks the poor insults his Maker, and one who rejoices over calamity will not go unpunished.


Do not boast so proudly, or let arrogant words come out of your mouth, for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and actions are weighed by him.


For by uttering boastful, empty words,  they seduce, with fleshly desires and debauchery, people who have barely escaped  from those who live in error.


These people are discontented grumblers, living according to their desires;  their mouths utter arrogant words, flattering  people for their own advantage.


Have I rejoiced over my enemy’s distress, or become excited when trouble came his way?


The beast was given a mouth to utter boasts and blasphemies.  It was allowed to exercise authority  , for forty-two months.


So too, though the tongue is a small part of the body, it boasts great things.  Consider how a small fire sets ablaze a large forest.


As he approached and saw the city, he wept  for it,


So rejoice and be glad, Daughter Edom, you resident of the land of Uz! Yet the cup  will pass to you as well; you will get drunk and expose yourself.


You have mocked the Lord through your servants. You have said, ‘With my many chariots I have gone up to the heights of the mountains, to the far recesses of Lebanon. I cut down its tallest cedars, its choice cypress trees. I came to its distant heights, its densest forest.


Those in the west are appalled  at his fate, while those in the east tremble in horror.


All your enemies open their mouths against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth, saying, ‘We have swallowed her up. This is the day we have waited for! We have lived to see it.’


Then you will know that I, the Lord, have heard all the blasphemies you uttered against the mountains of Israel, saying, ‘They are desolate. They have been given to us to devour! ’


‘ “This is what the Lord God says: Certainly in my burning zeal I speak against the rest of the nations and all of Edom,  who took  my land as their own possession with wholehearted rejoicing and utter contempt  so that its pastureland became  plunder.





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