Obadiah 1:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Do not see with pleasure your brother's evil day, the day of his fate, and do not be glad over the children of Judah on the day of their destruction, or make wide your mouth on the day of trouble.

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  • Prov 17:5 : 5 Whoever makes sport of the poor puts shame on his Maker; and he who is glad because of trouble will not go free from punishment.
  • Mic 4:11 : 11 And now a number of nations have come together against you, and they say, Let her be made unclean and let our eyes see the fate of Zion.
  • Ezek 35:15 : 15 You will become a waste, O Mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.
  • 1 Sam 2:3 : 3 Say no more words of pride; let not uncontrolled sayings come out of your mouths: for the Lord is a God of knowledge, by him acts are judged.
  • Ps 22:17 : 17 I am able to see all my bones; their looks are fixed on me:
  • Ps 31:18 : 18 Let the false lips be shut, which say evil against the upright, looking down on him in their pride.
  • Ps 37:13 : 13 He will be laughed at by the Lord, who sees that his day is coming.
  • Ps 54:7 : 7 Because it has been my saviour from all my trouble; and my eyes have seen the punishment of my haters.
  • Ps 59:10 : 10 The God of my mercy will go before me: God will let me see my desire effected on my haters.
  • Ps 92:11 : 11 My eyes have seen trouble come on my haters; my ears have news of the fate of the evil-doers who have come up against me.
  • Prov 24:17-18 : 17 Do not be glad at the fall of your hater, and let not your heart have joy at his downfall: 18 For fear that the Lord may see it, and it may be evil in his eyes, and his wrath may be turned away from him.
  • Isa 37:24 : 24 You have sent your servants with evil words against the Lord, and have said, With all my war-carriages I have come up to the top of the mountains, to the inmost parts of Lebanon; and its tall cedars will be cut down, and the best trees of its woods: I will come up into his highest places, into his thick woods.
  • Lam 4:21 : 21 Have joy and be glad, O daughter of Edom, living in the land of Uz: the cup will be given to you in your turn, and you will be overcome with wine and your shame will be seen.
  • Ezek 25:6-7 : 6 For the Lord has said, Because you have made sounds of joy with your hands, stamping your feet, and have been glad, putting shame with all your soul on the land of Israel; 7 For this cause my hand has been stretched out against you, and I will give up your goods to be taken by the nations; I will have you cut off from the peoples and will put an end to you among the countries: I will give you up to destruction; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.
  • Mic 7:8-9 : 8 Do not be glad because of my sorrow, O my hater: after my fall I will be lifted up; when I am seated in the dark, the Lord will be a light to me. 9 I will undergo the wrath of the Lord, because of my sin against him; till he takes up my cause and does what is right for me: when he makes me come out into the light, I will see his righteousness; 10 And my hater will see it and be covered with shame; she who said to me, Where is the Lord your God? my eyes will see their desire effected on her, now she will be crushed under foot like the dust of the streets.
  • Matt 27:40-43 : 40 You who would give the Temple to destruction and put it up again in three days, get yourself free: if you are the Son of God, come down from the cross. 41 In the same way, the chief priests, making sport of him, with the scribes and those in authority, said, 42 A saviour of others, he has no salvation for himself. If he is the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will have faith in him. 43 He put his faith in God; let God be his saviour now, if he will have him; for he said, I am the Son of God.
  • Luke 19:41 : 41 And when he got near and saw the town, he was overcome with weeping for it,
  • Jas 3:5 : 5 Even so the tongue is a small part of the body, but it takes credit for great things. How much wood may be lighted by a very little fire!
  • 2 Pet 2:18 : 18 For with high-sounding false words, making use of the attraction of unclean desires of the flesh, they get into their power those newly made free from those who are living in error;
  • Jude 1:16 : 16 These are the men who make trouble, ever desiring change, going after evil pleasures, using high-sounding words, respecting men's position in the hope of reward.
  • Rev 13:5 : 5 And there was given to him a mouth to say words of pride against God; and there was given to him authority to go on for forty-two months.
  • Job 31:29 : 29 If I was glad at the trouble of my hater, and gave cries of joy when evil overtook him;

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