I in turn will laugh at your calamity. I will mock when dread comes on you,
The Lord laughs at him— for He sees his day is coming.
He who sits in heaven laughs! Adonai mocks them.
What the wicked dread will fall on them. The desire of the righteous will be given.
For I tell you, none of those men who were invited will taste my banquet.’”
Therefore his disaster will come suddenly —in an instant he will be broken, with no remedy.
Go and cry out to the gods which you have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your distress.”
Now just as Adonai rejoiced over you to do you good and to multiply you, so Adonai will rejoice over you to ruin and destroy you; and you will be uprooted from the land that you are going in to possess.
See, they are spewing with their mouth —swords in their lips— “After all, who is listening?”
Though He scoffs at the scoffers, He gives grace to the humble.
A man is praised according to his insight, but one with a twisted mind is despised.
Judgments are prepared for scoffers, and floggings for the back of fools.