Obadiah 1:12

World English Bible (2000)

But don't look down on your brother in the day of his disaster, and don't rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction. Don't speak proudly in the day of distress.

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  • Prov 17:5 : 5 Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.
  • Mic 4:11 : 11 Now many nations have assembled against you, that say, "Let her be defiled, and let our eye gloat over Zion."
  • Ezek 35:15 : 15 As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do to you: you shall be desolate, Mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
  • 1 Sam 2:3 : 3 "Talk no more so exceeding proudly. Don't let arrogance come out of your mouth, For Yahweh is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.
  • Ps 22:17 : 17 I can count all of my bones. They look and stare at me.
  • Ps 31:18 : 18 Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.
  • Ps 37:13 : 13 The Lord will laugh at him, for he sees that his day is coming.
  • Ps 54:7 : 7 For he has delivered me out of all trouble. My eye has seen triumph over my enemies. For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A contemplation by David.
  • Ps 59:10 : 10 My God will go before me with his loving kindness. God will let me look at my enemies in triumph.
  • Ps 92:11 : 11 My eye has also seen my enemies. My ears have heard of the wicked enemies who rise up against me.
  • Prov 24:17-18 : 17 Don't rejoice when your enemy falls. Don't let your heart be glad when he is overthrown; 18 lest Yahweh see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.
  • Isa 37:24 : 24 By your servants, have you defied the Lord, and have said, "With the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon. I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice fir trees. I will enter into its farthest height, the forest of its fruitful field.
  • Lam 4:21 : 21 Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom, that dwell in the land of Uz: The cup shall pass through to you also; you shall be drunken, and shall make yourself naked.
  • Ezek 25:6-7 : 6 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have clapped your hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced with all the despite of your soul against the land of Israel; 7 therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand on you, and will deliver you for a spoil to the nations; and I will cut you off from the peoples, and I will cause you to perish out of the countries: I will destroy you; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
  • Mic 7:8-9 : 8 Don't rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me. 9 I will bear the indignation of Yahweh, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my case, and executes judgment for me. He will bring me forth to the light. I will see his righteousness. 10 Then my enemy will see it, and shame will cover her who said to me, where is Yahweh your God? Then my enemy will see me and will cover her shame. Now she will be trodden down like the mire of the streets.
  • Matt 27:40-43 : 40 and saying, "You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross!" 41 Likewise the chief priests also mocking, with the scribes, the Pharisees, and the elders, said, 42 "He saved others, but he can't save himself. If he is the King of Israel, let him come down from the cross now, and we will believe in him. 43 He trusts in God. Let God deliver him now, if he wants him; for he said, 'I am the Son of God.'"
  • Luke 19:41 : 41 When he drew near, he saw the city and wept over it,
  • Jas 3:5 : 5 So the tongue is also a little member, and boasts great things. See how a small fire can spread to a large forest!
  • 2 Pet 2:18 : 18 For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;
  • Jude 1:16 : 16 These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts (and their mouth speaks proud things), showing respect of persons to gain advantage.
  • Rev 13:5 : 5 A mouth speaking great things and blasphemy was given to him. Authority to make war for forty-two months was given to him.
  • Job 31:29 : 29 "If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him;

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