Obadiah 1:12

New English Translation

You should not have gloated when your relatives suffered calamity. You should not have rejoiced over the people of Judah when they were destroyed. You should not have boasted when they suffered adversity.

Cross References

Job 18:20

People of the west are appalled at his fate; people of the east are seized with horror, saying,

Job 31:29

If I have rejoiced over the misfortune of my enemy or exulted because calamity found him –

Psalm 22:17

I can count all my bones; my enemies are gloating over me in triumph.

Psalm 31:18

May lying lips be silenced – lips that speak defiantly against the innocent with arrogance and contempt!

Psalm 35:15

But when I stumbled, they rejoiced and gathered together; they gathered together to ambush me. They tore at me without stopping to rest.

Psalm 37:13

The Lord laughs in disgust at them, for he knows that their day is coming.

Psalm 54:7

Surely he rescues me from all trouble, and I triumph over my enemies.

Psalm 59:10

The God who loves me will help me; God will enable me to triumph over my enemies.

Psalm 92:11

I gloat in triumph over those who tried to ambush me; I hear the defeated cries of the evil foes who attacked me.

Proverbs 17:5

The one who mocks the poor insults his Creator; whoever rejoices over disaster will not go unpunished.

Isaiah 37:24

Through your messengers you taunted the sovereign master, ‘With my many chariots I climbed up the high mountains, the slopes of Lebanon. I cut down its tall cedars and its best evergreens. I invaded its most remote regions, its thickest woods.

Lamentations 2:16

All your enemies gloated over you. They sneered and gnashed their teeth; they said, “We have destroyed her! Ha! We have waited a long time for this day. We have lived to see it!” ע (Ayin)

Lamentations 4:21

Rejoice and be glad for now, O people of Edom, who reside in the land of Uz. But the cup of judgment will pass to you also; you will get drunk and take off your clothes. ת (Tav)

Ezekiel 35:12

Then you will know that I, the Lord, have heard all the insults you spoke against the mountains of Israel, saying, “They are desolate, they have been given to us for food.”

Ezekiel 35:15

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

Ezekiel 36:5

therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Surely I have spoken in the fire of my zeal against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who with great joy and utter contempt have made my land their property and prey, because of its pasture.’

Micah 4:11

Many nations have now assembled against you. They say, “Jerusalem must be desecrated, so we can gloat over Zion!”

Luke 19:41

Now when Jesus approached and saw the city, he wept over it,

James 3:5

So too the tongue is a small part of the body, yet it has great pretensions. Think how small a flame sets a huge forest ablaze.

2 Peter 2:18

For by speaking high-sounding but empty words they are able to entice, with fleshly desires and with debauchery, people who have just escaped from those who reside in error.

Jude 1:16

These people are grumblers and fault-finders who go wherever their desires lead them, and they give bombastic speeches, enchanting folks for their own gain.

Revelation 13:5

The beast was given a mouth speaking proud words and blasphemies, and he was permitted to exercise ruling authority for forty-two months.

1 Samuel 2:3

Don’t keep speaking so arrogantly, letting proud talk come out of your mouth! For the Lord is a God who knows; he evaluates what people do.