They break up my path; they succeed in destroying me without anyone helping them.
Zechariah 1:15 - Tree of Life Version and I am infuriated with the haughty nations. I was a little angry with them, but they furthered their own calamity.” 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 succeed in destroying me without anyone helping them.
Our soul has had enough of the scorn of those at ease, the contempt of the proud.
Remember, Adonai, the children of Edom, what they said on the day Jerusalem fell: “Strip her, strip her to her very foundation!”
In a surge of anger I hid My face from you a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you,” says Adonai your Redeemer.
Yet all who devour you will be devoured, and all your foes—all of them— will go into captivity. Those plundering you will be plundered, and all preying on you I give as prey.
Thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot: “The children of Israel and the children of Judah are oppressed together. All their captors hold them fast. They refused to let them go.
I will repay Babylon and all living in Chaldea for all their evil that they did in Zion, before your eyes.” It is a declaration of Adonai.
“Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, ‘Aha, she is shattered, the gateway of the peoples—she is turned over to me! I will be filled, now that she is laid waste!’
Oy ! You who are at ease in Zion, trusting in Samaria’s hill! Distinguished ones of the foremost of nations— to whom the house of Israel comes
They answered the angel of Adonai who stood among the myrtle trees saying, ‘We have walked throughout the earth, and behold, all the earth sits quietly and is still.’
Now this is the plague with which Adonai will strike all the peoples that wage war against Jerusalem: their flesh will rot while they are standing on their feet; their eyes will rot in their sockets; and their tongues will rot in their mouths.
Then he called and spoke to me saying, ‘Look! Those going toward the land of the north have given rest to My Ruach in the north country.’