They break up my path, they promote my calamity; no one restrains them.
Zechariah 1:15 - Revised Standard Version And I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for while I was angry but a little they furthered the disaster. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for while I was but a little displeased, they helped forward the affliction and disaster. American Standard Version (1901) And I am very sore displeased with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction. Common English Bible And I am exceedingly angry with those carefree nations. Though I was somewhat angry, they added to the violence.” Catholic Public Domain Version And, with a great anger, I am angry with the wealthy nations. Though I had been angry a little, truly they advanced further in evil. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And I am angry with a great anger with the wealthy nations: for I was angry a little, but they helped forward the evil. |
They break up my path, they promote my calamity; no one restrains them.
Too long our soul has been sated with the scorn of those who are at ease, the contempt of the proud.
Remember, O Lord, against the Edomites the day of Jerusalem, how they said, “Raze it, raze it! Down to its foundations!”
For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten, and him whom thou hast wounded, they afflict still more.
In overflowing wrath for a moment I hid my face from you, but with everlasting love I will have compassion on you, says the Lord, your Redeemer.
Therefore all who devour you shall be devoured, and all your foes, every one of them, shall go into captivity; those who despoil you shall become a spoil, and all who prey on you I will make a prey.
“Thus says the Lord of hosts: The people of Israel are oppressed, and the people of Judah with them; all who took them captive have held them fast, they refuse to let them go.
“I will requite Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea before your very eyes for all the evil that they have done in Zion, says the Lord.
“Son of man, because Tyre said concerning Jerusalem, ‘Aha, the gate of the peoples is broken, it has swung open to me; I shall be replenished, now that she is laid waste,’
“Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and to those who feel secure on the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the first of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come!
Thou didst bestride the earth in fury, thou didst trample the nations in anger.
And they answered the angel of the Lord who was standing among the myrtle trees, ‘We have patrolled the earth, and behold, all the earth remains at rest.’
And this shall be the plague with which the Lord will smite all the peoples that wage war against Jerusalem: their flesh shall rot while they are still on their feet, their eyes shall rot in their sockets, and their tongues shall rot in their mouths.
Then he cried to me, “Behold, those who go toward the north country have set my Spirit at rest in the north country.”