Ezekiel 25:6
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6 “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because you clapped and danced and cheered with glee at the destruction of my people,
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Zephaniah 2:8
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Judgment against Moab and Ammon
8 “I have heard the taunts of the Moabites
and the insults of the Ammonites,
mocking my people
and invading their borders.
Obadiah 12
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12 “You should not have gloated
when they exiled your relatives to distant lands.
You should not have rejoiced
when the people of Judah suffered such misfortune.
You should not have spoken arrogantly
in that terrible time of trouble.
Zephaniah 2:10
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10 They will receive the wages of their pride,
for they have scoffed at the people of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
Nahum 3:19
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19 There is no healing for your wound;
your injury is fatal.
All who hear of your destruction
will clap their hands for joy.
Where can anyone be found
who has not suffered from your continual cruelty?
Ezekiel 36:5
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5 This is what the Sovereign Lord says: My jealous anger burns against these nations, especially Edom, because they have shown utter contempt for me by gleefully taking my land for themselves as plunder.
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Ezekiel 25:15
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A Message for Philistia
15 “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: The people of Philistia have acted against Judah out of bitter revenge and long-standing contempt.
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Ezekiel 6:11
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11 “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Clap your hands in horror, and stamp your feet. Cry out because of all the detestable sins the people of Israel have committed. Now they are going to die from war and famine and disease.
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Job 27:23
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23 But everyone jeers at them
and mocks them.
Zephaniah 2:15
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15 This is the boisterous city,
once so secure.
“I am the greatest!” it boasted.
“No other city can compare with me!”
But now, look how it has become an utter ruin,
a haven for wild animals.
Everyone passing by will laugh in derision
and shake a defiant fist.
Ezekiel 35:15
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15 You rejoiced at the desolation of Israel’s territory. Now I will rejoice at yours! You will be wiped out, you people of Mount Seir and all who live in Edom! Then you will know that I am the Lord.
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Lamentations 2:15
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15 All who pass by jeer at you.
They scoff and insult beautiful Jerusalem,[a] saying,
“Is this the city called ‘Most Beautiful in All the World’
and ‘Joy of All the Earth’?”
Footnotes
- 2:15 Hebrew the daughter of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 48:27
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27 Did you not ridicule the people of Israel?
Were they caught in the company of thieves
that you should despise them as you do?
Proverbs 24:17
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17 Don’t rejoice when your enemies fall;
don’t be happy when they stumble.
Job 34:37
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37 For you have added rebellion to your sin;
you show no respect,
and you speak many angry words against God.”
Nehemiah 4:3-4
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3 Tobiah the Ammonite, who was standing beside him, remarked, “That stone wall would collapse if even a fox walked along the top of it!”
4 Then I prayed, “Hear us, our God, for we are being mocked. May their scoffing fall back on their own heads, and may they themselves become captives in a foreign land!
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