“Let me also laugh at your calamity, Mock when your dread comes,
He who is sitting in the heavens laughs, יהוה mocks at them.
יהוה laughs at him, For He sees that his day is coming.
But You, יהוה, laughs at them, You mock all the gentiles.
What the wrong one fears comes upon him, But the desire of the righteous is granted.
A man is praised according to his wisdom, But the perverted of heart becomes despised.
Judgments are in store for scoffers, And beatings for the backs of fools.
He certainly scoffs the scoffers, But gives favour to the humble.
Therefore his calamity comes suddenly; Instantly he is broken, And there is no healing.
‘For I say to you that none of those men who were invited shall taste my supper.’ ”
“And it shall be, that as יהוה rejoiced over you to do you good and increase you, so יהוה does rejoice over you to destroy you and lay you waste. And you shall be plucked from off the land which you go to possess.
“Go and cry out to the mighty ones which you have chosen, let them save you in your time of distress.”