Parallel Verses
- The Message - “Oh, listen to my groans. No one listens, no one cares. When my enemies heard of the trouble you gave me, they cheered. Bring on Judgment Day! Let them get what I got!
- 新标点和合本 - 听见我叹息的有人； 安慰我的却无人！ 我的仇敌都听见我所遭的患难； 因你做这事，他们都喜乐。 你必使你报告的日子来到， 他们就像我一样。
- 和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 有人听见我叹息 ， 却无人安慰我！ 我所有的仇敌听见我的患难就喜乐， 因这是你所做的。 你使你所宣告的日子来临， 愿他们像我一样。
- 和合本2010（神版-简体） - 有人听见我叹息 ， 却无人安慰我！ 我所有的仇敌听见我的患难就喜乐， 因这是你所做的。 你使你所宣告的日子来临， 愿他们像我一样。
- 当代译本 - “人们听见我的哀叹， 却无人安慰我。 敌人听说你降给我的灾难， 都幸灾乐祸。 愿你宣告的审判之日来临， 叫他们像我一样受苦！
- 圣经新译本 - 有人听见我的唉哼，却没有人安慰我， 我所有的仇敌都听见我的灾难；你作了这事，他们就欢乐。 愿你使你所宣告的日子来临那时，他们就必像我一样。
- 中文标准译本 - “人们听见我叹息， 却无人安慰我； 我一切的仇敌听见我的灾祸， 他们因你做了这事而高兴。 愿你使你宣告的日子来到， 他们就会像我一样。 ת Tav
- 现代标点和合本 - 听见我叹息的有人， 安慰我的却无人。 我的仇敌都听见我所遭的患难， 因你做这事他们都喜乐。 你必使你报告的日子来到， 他们就像我一样。
- 和合本（拼音版） - 听见我叹息的有人， 安慰我的却无人！ 我的仇敌都听见我所遭的患难， 因你作这事，他们都喜乐。 你必使你报告的日子来到， 他们就像我一样。
- New International Version - “People have heard my groaning, but there is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my distress; they rejoice at what you have done. May you bring the day you have announced so they may become like me.
- New International Reader's Version - “People have heard me groan. But no one is here to comfort me. My enemies have heard about all my troubles. What you have done makes them happy. So please judge them, just as you said you would. Let them become like me.
- English Standard Version - “They heard my groaning, yet there is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have done it. You have brought the day you announced; now let them be as I am.
- New Living Translation - “Others heard my groans, but no one turned to comfort me. When my enemies heard about my troubles, they were happy to see what you had done. Oh, bring the day you promised, when they will suffer as I have suffered.
- Christian Standard Bible - People have heard me groaning, but there is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my misfortune; they are glad that you have caused it. Bring on the day you have announced, so that they may become like me. ת Taw
- New American Standard Bible - They have heard that I groan; There is no one to comfort me, All my enemies have heard of my disaster; They are joyful that You have done it. Oh, that You would bring the day which You have proclaimed, So that they will become like me.
- New King James Version - “They have heard that I sigh, But no one comforts me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble; They are glad that You have done it. Bring on the day You have announced, That they may become like me.
- Amplified Bible - People have heard that I groan, That I have no comforter [in You]. All my enemies have heard of my desperation; They are delighted [O Lord] that You have done it. Oh, that You would bring the day [of judgment] which You have proclaimed So that they will become like me.
- American Standard Version - They have heard that I sigh; there is none to comfort me; All mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: Thou wilt bring the day that thou hast proclaimed, and they shall be like unto me.
- King James Version - They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called, and they shall be like unto me.
- New English Translation - They have heard that I groan, yet there is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have brought it about. Bring about the day of judgment that you promised so that they may end up like me! ת (Tav)
- World English Bible - “They have heard that I sigh. There is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble. They are glad that you have done it. You will bring the day that you have proclaimed, and they will be like me.
- 新標點和合本 - 聽見我歎息的有人； 安慰我的卻無人！ 我的仇敵都聽見我所遭的患難； 因你做這事，他們都喜樂。 你必使你報告的日子來到， 他們就像我一樣。
- 和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 有人聽見我嘆息 ， 卻無人安慰我！ 我所有的仇敵聽見我的患難就喜樂， 因這是你所做的。 你使你所宣告的日子來臨， 願他們像我一樣。
- 和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 有人聽見我嘆息 ， 卻無人安慰我！ 我所有的仇敵聽見我的患難就喜樂， 因這是你所做的。 你使你所宣告的日子來臨， 願他們像我一樣。
- 當代譯本 - 「人們聽見我的哀歎， 卻無人安慰我。 敵人聽說你降給我的災難， 都幸災樂禍。 願你宣告的審判之日來臨， 叫他們像我一樣受苦！
- 聖經新譯本 - 有人聽見我的唉哼，卻沒有人安慰我， 我所有的仇敵都聽見我的災難；你作了這事，他們就歡樂。 願你使你所宣告的日子來臨那時，他們就必像我一樣。
- 呂振中譯本 - 『人聽見我歎息， 卻沒有人安慰我； 我的仇敵聽見我遭的患難， 都高興你作了這事， 願你使你宣告的日子來到， 他們就像我一樣。
- 中文標準譯本 - 「人們聽見我嘆息， 卻無人安慰我； 我一切的仇敵聽見我的災禍， 他們因你做了這事而高興。 願你使你宣告的日子來到， 他們就會像我一樣。 ת Tav
- 現代標點和合本 - 聽見我嘆息的有人， 安慰我的卻無人。 我的仇敵都聽見我所遭的患難， 因你做這事他們都喜樂。 你必使你報告的日子來到， 他們就像我一樣。
- 文理和合譯本 - 維彼聞我咨嗟、無人慰藉兮、諸敵聞我遘難、悅爾所行兮、爾所宣告之日既至、彼乃與我相同兮、
- 文理委辦譯本 - 維彼人斯、聞予嗟嘆、不加慰藉、敵聞爾降災於予、反增喜色、爾已定命、降災於彼、與余無異言、必有應兮。
- 施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 人聞我嗟嘆、不加慰藉、我一切敵聞我遘災、為主所降、反增欣喜、 我一切敵聞我遘災為主所降反增欣喜或作我一切敵聞我遘災則皆欣喜此乃主所使 主已宣告其日將至、我敵 遭災、 與我無異、斯言望主應驗、
- Nueva Versión Internacional - »La gente ha escuchado mi gemir, pero no hay quien me consuele. Todos mis enemigos conocen mi pesar y se alegran de lo que has hecho conmigo. ¡Manda ya tu castigo anunciado, para que sufran lo que he sufrido! Tav
- 현대인의 성경 - “사람들이 나의 탄식 소리를 들었지만 나를 위로하는 자는 아무도 없습니다. 나의 모든 원수들이 내 고통에 대해서 들었으나 오히려 기뻐하고 있습니다. 주께서 선포하신 날이 이르게 하셔서 내 원수들도 나처럼 고난받게 하소서.
- Новый Русский Перевод - Люди услышали стоны мои, но нет мне утешителя. Все враги мои услышали о бедствии моем и были рады тому, что Ты сделал со мною. Пусть же наступит день, объявленный Тобой, когда с ними случится то же, что и со мной.
- Восточный перевод - Люди услышали стоны мои, но никто меня не утешит. Все враги мои услышали о бедствии моём и были рады тому, что Ты сделал со мною. Пусть же наступит день, объявленный Тобой, когда с ними случится то же, что и со мной.
- Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Люди услышали стоны мои, но никто меня не утешит. Все враги мои услышали о бедствии моём и были рады тому, что Ты сделал со мною. Пусть же наступит день, объявленный Тобой, когда с ними случится то же, что и со мной.
- Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Люди услышали стоны мои, но никто меня не утешит. Все враги мои услышали о бедствии моём и были рады тому, что Ты сделал со мною. Пусть же наступит день, объявленный Тобой, когда с ними случится то же, что и со мной.
- La Bible du Semeur 2015 - On entend mes gémissements, mais nul ne me console et tous mes ennemis, ╵apprenant mon malheur, sont dans la joie, ╵car c’est toi qui as fait cela. Fais donc venir le jour ╵que tu as annoncé, et que mes ennemis ╵deviennent comme moi !
- リビングバイブル - 私のうめきを聞いてください。 助けてくれる者はどこにもいません。 敵は私が苦しんでいるのを聞きました。 彼らは、主が私に罰を加えたと知って、 喜んでいます。 しかし主よ。お約束どおり、 彼らも私と同じ目に会う時が来るはずです。
- Nova Versão Internacional - “Os meus lamentos têm sido ouvidos, mas não há ninguém que me console. Todos os meus inimigos sabem da minha agonia; eles se alegram com o que fizeste. Quem dera trouxesses o dia que anunciaste para que eles ficassem como eu!
- Hoffnung für alle - Man hört mich seufzen, doch keiner tröstet mich. Stattdessen jubeln meine Feinde, wenn sie erfahren, welches Unglück du über mich gebracht hast. Doch wenn dein Gerichtstag kommt, den du seit langem angekündigt hast, dann wird es ihnen ergehen wie mir.
- Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Xin nghe tiếng con thở than, nhưng chẳng một người nào an ủi con. Khi quân thù nghe tin con hoạn nạn. Họ mừng rỡ vì tay Chúa đánh phạt con. Vào đúng thời điểm Ngài ấn định, để họ cùng chịu hoạn nạn như con.
- พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - “ผู้คนได้ยินเสียงครวญครางของข้าพระองค์ แต่ไม่มีใครปลอบโยนข้าพระองค์ ศัตรูทั้งปวงได้ยินถึงความทุกข์ยากลำเค็ญของข้าพระองค์ ก็กระหยิ่มลิงโลดในสิ่งที่พระองค์ได้ทรงทำ ขอทรงนำวันนั้นที่ทรงประกาศไว้มาถึง เพื่อพวกเขาจะได้เป็นเหมือนข้าพระองค์
- พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - ฟังเสียงโอดครวญของข้าพเจ้าเถิด ไม่มีใครปลอบประโลมเลย พวกศัตรูทราบว่าข้าพเจ้าลำบาก พวกเขาดีใจที่พระองค์กระทำต่อข้าพเจ้า พระองค์ให้สิ่งเป็นไปตามที่พระองค์ประกาศแล้ว แต่ขอให้ศัตรูประสบอย่างเดียวกันกับข้าพเจ้าเถิด
Cross Reference
- Ezekiel 25:1 - God’s Message came to me: “Son of man, face Ammon and preach against the people: Listen to the Message of God, the Master. This is what God has to say: Because you cheered when my Sanctuary was desecrated and the land of Judah was devastated and the people of Israel were taken into exile, I’m giving you over to the people of the east. They’ll move in and make themselves at home, eating the food right off your tables and drinking your milk. I’ll turn your capital, Rabbah, into pasture for camels and all your villages into corrals for flocks. Then you’ll realize that I am God.
- Ezekiel 25:6 - “God, the Master, says, Because you clapped and cheered, venting all your malicious contempt against the land of Israel, I’ll step in and hand you out as loot—first come, first served. I’ll cross you off the roster of nations. There’ll be nothing left of you. And you’ll realize that I am God.” * * *
- Ezekiel 25:8 - “God, the Master, says: Because Moab said, ‘Look, Judah’s nothing special,’ I’ll lay wide open the flank of Moab by exposing its lovely frontier villages to attack: Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, and Kiriathaim. I’ll lump Moab in with Ammon and give them to the people of the east for the taking. Ammon won’t be heard from again. I’ll punish Moab severely. And they’ll realize that I am God.” * * *
- Ezekiel 25:12 - “God, the Master, says: Because Edom reacted against the people of Judah in spiteful revenge and was so criminally vengeful against them, therefore I, God, the Master, will oppose Edom and kill the lot of them, people and animals both. I’ll waste it—corpses stretched from Teman to Dedan. I’ll use my people Israel to bring my vengeance down on Edom. My wrath will fuel their action. And they’ll realize it’s my vengeance. Decree of God the Master.” * * *
- Ezekiel 25:15 - “God, the Master, says: Because the Philistines were so spitefully vengeful—all those centuries of stored-up malice!—and did their best to destroy Judah, therefore I, God, the Master, will oppose the Philistines and cut down the Cretans and anybody else left along the seacoast. Huge acts of vengeance, massive punishments! When I bring vengeance, they’ll realize that I am God.”
- Isaiah 13:1 - The Message on Babylon. Isaiah son of Amoz saw it:
- Isaiah 13:2 - “Run up a flag on an open hill. Yell loud. Get their attention. Wave them into formation. Direct them to the nerve center of power. I’ve taken charge of my special forces, called up my crack troops. They’re bursting with pride and passion to carry out my angry judgment.”
- Isaiah 13:4 - Thunder rolls off the mountains like a mob huge and noisy— Thunder of kingdoms in an uproar, nations assembling for war. God-of-the-Angel-Armies is calling his army into battle formation. They come from far-off countries, they pour in across the horizon. It’s God on the move with the weapons of his wrath, ready to destroy the whole country.
- Isaiah 13:6 - Wail! God’s Day of Judgment is near— an avalanche crashing down from the Strong God! Everyone paralyzed in the panic, hysterical and unstrung, Doubled up in pain like a woman giving birth to a baby. Horrified—everyone they see is like a face out of a nightmare. * * *
- Isaiah 13:9 - “Watch now. God’s Judgment Day comes. Cruel it is, a day of wrath and anger, A day to waste the earth and clean out all the sinners. The stars in the sky, the great parade of constellations, will be nothing but black holes. The sun will come up as a black disk, and the moon a blank nothing. I’ll put a full stop to the evil on earth, terminate the dark acts of the wicked. I’ll gag all braggarts and boasters—not a peep anymore from them— and trip strutting tyrants, leave them flat on their faces. Proud humanity will disappear from the earth. I’ll make mortals rarer than hens’ teeth. And yes, I’ll even make the sky shake, and the earth quake to its roots Under the wrath of God-of-the-Angel-Armies, the Judgment Day of his raging anger. Like a hunted white-tailed deer, like lost sheep with no shepherd, People will huddle with a few of their own kind, run off to some makeshift shelter. But tough luck to stragglers—they’ll be killed on the spot, throats cut, bellies ripped open, Babies smashed on the rocks while mothers and fathers watch, Houses looted, wives raped.
- Jeremiah 50:29 - “Call in the troops against Babylon, anyone who can shoot straight! Tighten the noose! Leave no loopholes! Give her back as good as she gave, a dose of her own medicine! Her brazen insolence is an outrage against God, The Holy of Israel. And now she pays: her young strewn dead in the streets, her soldiers dead, silent forever.” God’s Decree.
- Lamentations 1:11 - All the people groaned, so desperate for food, so desperate to stay alive that they bartered their favorite things for a bit of breakfast: “O God, look at me! Worthless, cheap, abject!
- Lamentations 1:12 - “And you passersby, look at me! Have you ever seen anything like this? Ever seen pain like my pain, seen what he did to me, what God did to me in his rage?
- Isaiah 47:1 - “Get off your high horse and sit in the dirt, virgin daughter of Babylon. No more throne for you—sit on the ground, daughter of the Chaldeans. Nobody will be calling you ‘charming’ and ‘alluring’ anymore. Get used to it. Get a job, any old job: Clean gutters, scrub toilets. Pawn your gowns and scarves, put on your working pants—the party’s over. Your nude body will be on public display, exposed to vulgar taunts. It’s vengeance time, and I’m taking vengeance. No one gets let off the hook.”
- Isaiah 47:4 - Our Redeemer speaks, named God-of-the-Angel-Armies, The Holy of Israel: “Shut up and get out of the way, daughter of Chaldeans. You’ll no longer be called ‘First Lady of the Kingdoms.’ I was fed up with my people, thoroughly disgusted with my progeny. I turned them over to you, but you had no compassion. You put old men and women to cruel, hard labor. You said, ‘I’m the First Lady. I’ll always be the pampered darling.’ You took nothing seriously, took nothing to heart, never gave tomorrow a thought. Well, start thinking, party girl. You’re acting like the center of the universe, Smugly saying to yourself, ‘I’m Number One. There’s nobody but me. I’ll never be a widow, I’ll never lose my children.’ Those two things are going to hit you both at once, suddenly, on the same day: Spouse and children gone, a total loss, despite your many enchantments and charms. You were so confident and comfortable in your evil life, saying, ‘No one sees me.’ You thought you knew so much, had everything figured out. What delusion! Smugly telling yourself, ‘I’m Number One. There’s nobody but me.’ Ruin descends— you can’t charm it away. Disaster strikes— you can’t cast it off with spells. Catastrophe, sudden and total— and you’re totally at sea, totally bewildered! But don’t give up. From your great repertoire of enchantments there must be one you haven’t yet tried. You’ve been at this a long time. Surely something will work. I know you’re exhausted trying out remedies, but don’t give up. Call in the astrologers and stargazers. They’re good at this. Surely they can work up something!
- Isaiah 47:14 - “Fat chance. You’d be grasping at straws that are already in the fire, A fire that is even now raging. Your ‘experts’ are in it and won’t get out. It’s not a fire for cooking venison stew, not a fire to warm you on a winter night! That’s the fate of your friends in sorcery, your magician cronies you’ve been colluding with all your life. They reel, confused, bumping into one another. None of them bother to help you.”
- Jeremiah 50:31 - “Do you get it, Mister Pride? I’m your enemy!” Decree of the Master, God-of-the-Angel-Armies. “Time’s run out on you: That’s right: It’s Doomsday. Mister Pride will fall flat on his face. No one will offer him a hand. I’ll set his towns on fire. The fire will spread wild through the country.” * * *
- Jeremiah 25:17 - I took the cup from God’s hand and made them drink it, all the nations to which he sent me: Jerusalem and the towns of Judah, along with their kings and leaders, turning them into a vast wasteland, a horror to look at, a cussword—which, in fact, they now are; Pharaoh king of Egypt with his attendants and leaders, plus all his people and the melting pot of foreigners collected there; All the kings of Uz; All the kings of the Philistines from Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and what’s left of Ashdod; Edom, Moab, and the Ammonites; All the kings of Tyre, Sidon, and the coastlands across the sea; Dedan, Tema, Buz, and the nomads on the fringe of the desert; All the kings of Arabia and the various Bedouin sheiks and chieftains wandering about in the desert; All the kings of Zimri, Elam, and the Medes; All the kings from the north countries near and far, one by one; All the kingdoms on planet Earth . . . And the king of Sheshak (that is, Babylon) will be the last to drink.
- Jeremiah 25:27 - “Tell them, ‘These are orders from God-of-the-Angel-Armies, the God of Israel: Drink and get drunk and vomit. Fall on your faces and don’t get up again. You’re slated for a massacre.’
- Jeremiah 25:28 - “If any of them refuse to take the cup from you and drink it, say to them, ‘God-of-the-Angel-Armies has ordered you to drink. So drink!
- Jeremiah 25:29 - “‘Prepare for the worst! I’m starting off the catastrophe in the city that I claim as my own, so don’t think you are going to get out of it. No, you’re not getting out of anything. It’s the sword and nothing but the sword against everyone everywhere!’” The God-of-the-Angel-Armies’ Decree.
- Jeremiah 51:24 - “Judeans, you’ll see it with your own eyes. I’ll pay Babylon and all the Chaldeans back for all the evil they did in Zion.” God’s Decree.
- Habakkuk 2:15 - “Who do you think you are— inviting your neighbors to your drunken parties, Giving them too much to drink, roping them into your sexual orgies? You thought you were having the time of your life. Wrong! It’s a time of disgrace. All the time you were drinking, you were drinking from the cup of God’s wrath. You’ll wake up holding your throbbing head, hung over— hung over from Lebanon violence, Hung over from animal massacres, hung over from murder and mayhem, From multiple violations of place and people.
- Jeremiah 51:49 - “Babylon must fall— compensation for the war dead in Israel. Babylonians will be killed because of all that Babylonian killing. But you exiles who have escaped a Babylonian death, get out! And fast! Remember God in your long and distant exile. Keep Jerusalem alive in your memory.”
- Amos 1:1 - The Message of Amos, one of the shepherds of Tekoa, that he received on behalf of Israel. It came to him in visions during the time that Uzziah was king of Judah and Jeroboam II son of Joash was king of Israel, two years before the big earthquake.
- Amos 1:2 - The Message: God roars from Zion, shouts from Jerusalem! The thunderclap voice withers the pastures tended by shepherds, shrivels Mount Carmel’s proud peak.
- Amos 1:3 - God’s Message: “Because of the three great sins of Damascus —make that four—I’m not putting up with her any longer. She pounded Gilead to a pulp, pounded her senseless with iron hammers and mauls. For that, I’m setting the palace of Hazael on fire. I’m torching Ben-hadad’s forts. I’m going to smash the Damascus gates and banish the crime king who lives in Sin Valley, the vice boss who gives orders from Paradise Palace. The people of the land will be sent back to where they came from—to Kir.” God’s Decree.
- Amos 1:6 - God’s Message: “Because of the three great sins of Gaza —make that four—I’m not putting up with her any longer. She deported whole towns and then sold the people to Edom. For that, I’m burning down the walls of Gaza, burning up all her forts. I’ll banish the crime king from Ashdod, the vice boss from Ashkelon. I’ll raise my fist against Ekron, and what’s left of the Philistines will die.” God’s Decree.
- Amos 1:9 - God’s Message: “Because of the three great sins of Tyre —make that four—I’m not putting up with her any longer. She deported whole towns to Edom, breaking the treaty she had with her kin. For that, I’m burning down the walls of Tyre, burning up all her forts.”
- Amos 1:11 - God’s Message: “Because of the three great sins of Edom —make that four—I’m not putting up with her any longer. She hunts down her brother to murder him. She has no pity, she has no heart. Her anger rampages day and night. Her meanness never takes a timeout. For that, I’m burning down her capital, Teman, burning up the forts of Bozrah.”
- Amos 1:13 - God’s Message: “Because of the three great sins of Ammon —make that four—I’m not putting up with her any longer. She ripped open pregnant women in Gilead to get more land for herself. For that, I’m burning down the walls of her capital, Rabbah, burning up her forts. Battle shouts! War whoops! with a tornado to finish things off! The king has been carted off to exile, the king and his princes with him.” God’s Decree. * * *
- Joel 3:14 - “Mass confusion, mob uproar— in Decision Valley! God’s Judgment Day has arrived in Decision Valley.
- Jeremiah 46:1 - God’s Messages through the prophet Jeremiah regarding the godless nations.
- Jeremiah 46:2 - The Message to Egypt and the army of Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt at the time it was defeated by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon while camped at Carchemish on the Euphrates River in the fourth year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah: “‘Present arms! March to the front! Harness the horses! Up in the saddles! Battle formation! Helmets on, spears sharpened, armor in place!’ But what’s this I see? They’re scared out of their wits! They break ranks and run for cover. Their soldiers panic. They run this way and that, stampeding blindly. It’s total chaos, total confusion, danger everywhere!” God’s Decree.
- Jeremiah 46:6 - “The swiftest runners won’t get away, the strongest soldiers won’t escape. In the north country, along the River Euphrates, they’ll stagger, stumble, and fall.
- Jeremiah 46:7 - “Who is this like the Nile in flood? like its streams torrential? Why, it’s Egypt like the Nile in flood, like its streams torrential, Saying, ‘I’ll take over the world. I’ll wipe out cities and peoples.’ Run, horses! Roll, chariots! Advance, soldiers from Cush and Put with your shields, Soldiers from Lud, experts with bow and arrow.
- Jeremiah 46:10 - “But it’s not your day. It’s the Master’s, me, God-of-the-Angel-Armies— the day when I have it out with my enemies, The day when Sword puts an end to my enemies, when Sword exacts vengeance. I, the Master, God-of-the-Angel-Armies, will pile them on an altar—a huge sacrifice!— In the great north country, along the mighty Euphrates.
- Jeremiah 46:11 - “Oh, virgin Daughter Egypt, climb into the mountains of Gilead, get healing balm. You will vainly collect medicines, for nothing will be able to cure what ails you. The whole world will hear your anguished cries. Your wails fill the earth, As soldier falls against soldier and they all go down in a heap.”
- Jeremiah 46:13 - The Message that God gave to the prophet Jeremiah when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon was on his way to attack Egypt:
- Jeremiah 46:14 - “Tell Egypt, alert Migdol, post warnings in Noph and Tahpanhes: ‘Wake up! Be prepared! War’s coming!’
- Jeremiah 46:15 - “Why will your bull-god Apis run off? Because God will drive him off. Your ragtag army will fall to pieces. The word is passing through the ranks, ‘Let’s get out of here while we still can. Let’s head for home and save our skins.’ When they get home they’ll nickname Pharaoh ‘Big-Talk-Bad-Luck.’ As sure as I am the living God” —the King’s Decree, God-of-the-Angel-Armies is his name— “A conqueror is coming: like Tabor, singular among mountains; like Carmel, jutting up from the sea! So pack your bags for exile, you coddled daughters of Egypt, For Memphis will soon be nothing, a vacant lot grown over with weeds.
- Jeremiah 46:20 - “Too bad, Egypt, a beautiful sleek heifer attacked by a horsefly from the north! All her hired soldiers are stationed to defend her— like well-fed calves they are. But when their lives are on the line, they’ll run off, cowards every one. When the going gets tough, they’ll take the easy way out.
- Jeremiah 46:22 - “Egypt will slither and hiss like a snake as the enemy army comes in force. They will rush in, swinging axes like lumberjacks cutting down trees. They’ll level the country”—God’s Decree—“nothing and no one standing for as far as you can see. The invaders will be a swarm of locusts, innumerable, past counting. Daughter Egypt will be ravished, raped by vandals from the north.”
- Jeremiah 46:25 - God-of-the-Angel-Armies, the God of Israel, says, “Watch out when I visit doom on the god Amon of Thebes, Egypt and its gods and kings, Pharaoh and those who trust in him. I’ll turn them over to those who are out to kill them, to Nebuchadnezzar and his military. Egypt will be set back a thousand years. Eventually people will live there again.” God’s Decree. * * *
- Jeremiah 46:27 - “But you, dear Jacob my servant, you have nothing to fear. Israel, there’s no need to worry. Look up! I’ll save you from that far country, I’ll get your children out of the land of exile. Things are going to be normal again for Jacob, safe and secure, smooth sailing. Yes, dear Jacob my servant, you have nothing to fear. Depend on it, I’m on your side. I’ll finish off all the godless nations among which I’ve scattered you, But I won’t finish you off. I have more work left to do on you. I’ll punish you, but fairly. No, I’m not finished with you yet.”
- Psalms 137:7 - God, remember those Edomites, and remember the ruin of Jerusalem, That day they yelled out, “Wreck it, smash it to bits!” And you, Babylonians—ravagers! A reward to whoever gets back at you for all you’ve done to us; Yes, a reward to the one who grabs your babies and smashes their heads on the rocks!
- Deuteronomy 32:43 - Celebrate, nations, join the praise of his people. He avenges the deaths of his servants, Pays back his enemies with vengeance, and cleanses his land for his people.
- Jeremiah 30:16 - “‘Everyone who hurt you will be hurt; your enemies will end up as slaves. Your plunderers will be plundered; your looters will become loot. As for you, I’ll come with healing, curing the incurable, Because they all gave up on you and dismissed you as hopeless— that good-for-nothing Zion.’
- Lamentations 1:4 - Zion’s roads weep, empty of pilgrims headed to the feasts. All her city gates are deserted, her priests in despair. Her virgins are sad. How bitter her fate.
- Lamentations 1:2 - She cries herself to sleep each night, tears soaking her pillow. No one’s left among her lovers to sit and hold her hand. Her friends have all dumped her.
- Lamentations 4:21 - Celebrate while you can, O Edom! Live it up in Uz! For it won’t be long before you drink this cup, too. You’ll find out what it’s like to drink God’s wrath, Get drunk on God’s wrath and wake up with nothing, stripped naked.
- Lamentations 4:22 - And that’s it for you, Zion. The punishment’s complete. You won’t have to go through this exile again. But Edom, your time is coming: He’ll punish your evil life, put all your sins on display.
- Psalms 35:15 - But when I was down they threw a party! All the nameless misfits of the town came chanting insults about me. Like barbarians desecrating a shrine, they destroyed my reputation.
- Jeremiah 50:11 - “You Babylonians had a good time while it lasted, didn’t you? You lived it up, exploiting and using my people, Frisky calves romping in lush pastures, wild stallions out having a good time! Well, your mother would hardly be proud of you. The woman who bore you wouldn’t be pleased. Look at what’s come of you! A nothing nation! Rubble and garbage and weeds! Emptied of life by my holy anger, a desert of death and emptiness. Travelers who pass by Babylon will gasp, appalled, shaking their heads at such a comedown. Gang up on Babylon! Pin her down! Throw everything you have against her. Hold nothing back. Knock her flat. She’s sinned—oh, how she’s sinned, against me! Shout battle cries from every direction. All the fight has gone out of her. Her defenses have been flattened, her walls smashed. ‘Operation God’s Vengeance.’ Pile on the vengeance! Do to her as she has done. Give her a good dose of her own medicine! Destroy her farms and farmers, ravage her fields, empty her barns. And you captives, while the destruction rages, get out while the getting’s good, get out fast and run for home. * * *
- Lamentations 1:22 - “Take a good look at their evil ways and give it to them! Give them what you gave me for my sins. Groaning in pain, body and soul, I’ve had all I can take.”
- Lamentations 1:16 - “For all this I weep, weep buckets of tears, and not a soul within miles around cares for my soul. My children are wasted, my enemy got his way.”
- Lamentations 2:15 - Astonished, passersby can’t believe what they see. They rub their eyes, they shake their heads over Jerusalem. Is this the city voted “Most Beautiful” and “Best Place to Live”?
- Lamentations 1:8 - Jerusalem, who outsinned the whole world, is an outcast. All who admired her despise her now that they see beneath the surface. Miserable, she groans and turns away in shame.