I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when panic strikes you,
but the Lord laughs at the wicked, for he sees that their day is coming.
He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord has them in derision.
What the wicked dread will come upon them, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.
For I tell you, none of those who were invited will taste my dinner.’ ”
on such a one calamity will descend suddenly, in a moment, damage beyond repair.
Go and cry to the gods whom you have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your distress.”
And just as the Lord took delight in making you prosperous and numerous, so the Lord will take delight in bringing you to ruin and destruction; you shall be plucked off the land that you are entering to possess.
But you laugh at them, O Lord; you hold all the nations in derision.
Toward the scorners he is scornful, but to the humble he shows favor.
One is commended for good sense, but a perverse mind is despised.
Punishments are prepared for scoffers and flogging for the backs of fools.