Verse 12

You should not have gloated when your relatives suffered calamity. You should not have rejoiced over the people of Judah when they were destroyed. You should not have boasted when they suffered adversity.

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 17:5 : 5 The one who mocks the poor has insulted his Creator; whoever rejoices over disaster will not go unpunished.
  • Mic 4:11 : 11 Many nations have now assembled against you. They say,“Jerusalem must be desecrated, so we can 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 deal with you– you will be desolate, Mount Seir, and all of Edom– all of it! Then they will know that I am the LORD.’”
  • 1 Sam 2:3 : 3 Don’t keep speaking so arrogantly. Proud talk should not come out of your mouth! For the LORD is a God who knows; he evaluates what people do.
  • Ps 22:17 : 17 I can count all my bones; my enemies are gloating over me in triumph.
  • Ps 31:18 : 18 May lying lips be silenced– lips that speak defiantly against the innocent with arrogance and contempt!
  • Ps 37:13 : 13 The Lord laughs in disgust at them, for he knows that their day is coming.
  • Ps 54:7 : 7 Surely he rescues me from all trouble, and I triumph over my enemies.
  • Ps 59:10 : 10 The God who loves me will help me; God will enable me to triumph over my enemies.
  • Ps 92:11 : 11 I gloat in triumph over those who tried to ambush me; I hear the defeated cries of the evil foes who attacked me.
  • Prov 24:17-18 : 17 Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and when he stumbles do not let your heart rejoice, 18 lest the LORD see it, and be displeased, and turn his wrath away from him.
  • Isa 37:24 : 24 Through your messengers you taunted the Lord,‘With my many chariots I climbed up the high mountains, the slopes of Lebanon. I cut down its tall cedars and its best evergreens. I invaded its most remote regions, its thickest woods.
  • Lam 4:21 : 21 ש(Sin/Shin)The Prophet Speaks: Rejoice and be glad for now, O people of Edom, who reside in the land of Uz. But the cup of judgment will pass to you also; you will get drunk and take off your clothes.
  • Ezek 25:6-7 : 6 For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Because you clapped your hands, stamped your feet, and rejoiced with intense scorn over the land of Israel, 7 take note, I have stretched out my hand against you, and I will hand you over as plunder to the nations. I will cut you off from the peoples and make you perish from the lands. I will destroy you; then you will know that I am the LORD.’”
  • Mic 7:8-9 : 8 Jerusalem Will Be Vindicated My enemies, do not gloat over me! Though I have fallen, I will get up. Though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light. 9 I must endure the LORD’s fury, for I have sinned against him. But then he will defend my cause, and accomplish justice on my behalf. He will lead me out into the light; I will witness his deliverance. 10 When my enemies see this, they will be covered with shame. They say to me,“Where is the LORD your God?” I will gloat over them. Then they will be trampled down like mud in the streets.
  • Matt 27:40-43 : 40 and saying,“You who can destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself! If you are God’s Son, come down from the cross!” 41 In the same way even the chief priests– together with the experts in the law and elders– were mocking him: 42 “He saved others, but he cannot save himself! He is the king of Israel! If he comes down now from the cross, we will believe in him! 43 He trusts in God– let God, if he wants to, deliver him now because he said,‘I am God’s Son’!”
  • Luke 19:41 : 41 Jesus Weeps for Jerusalem under Judgment Now when Jesus approached and saw the city, he wept over it,
  • Jas 3:5 : 5 So too the tongue is a small part of the body, yet it has great pretensions. Think how small a flame sets a huge forest ablaze.
  • 2 Pet 2:18 : 18 For by speaking high-sounding but empty words they are able to entice, with fleshly desires and with debauchery, people who have just escaped from those who reside in error.
  • Jude 1:16 : 16 These people are grumblers and fault-finders who go wherever their desires lead them, and they give bombastic speeches, enchanting folks for their own gain.
  • Rev 13:5 : 5 The beast was given a mouth speaking proud words and blasphemies, and he was permitted to exercise ruling authority for forty-two months.
  • Job 31:29 : 29 If I have rejoiced over the misfortune of my enemy or exulted because calamity found him–