Proverbs 1:26

1:26 so ¹  I myself will laugh ²  when disaster strikes you, ³ 

I will mock when what you dread ⁴  comes,

Isaiah 1:24

1:24 Therefore, the sovereign Lord who commands armies, ⁵ 

the powerful ruler of Israel, ⁶  says this:

“Ah, I will seek vengeance ⁷  against my adversaries,

I will take revenge against my enemies. ⁸ 

Ezekiel 5:13

5:13 Then my anger will be fully vented; I will exhaust my rage on them, and I will be appeased. ⁹  Then they will know that I, the Lord, have spoken in my jealousy ¹⁰  when I have fully vented my rage against them.

Ezekiel 33:11

33:11 Say to them, ‘As surely as I live, declares the sovereign Lord, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but prefer that the wicked change his behavior ¹¹  and live. Turn back, turn back from your evil deeds! ¹²  Why should you die, O house of Israel?’

¹ tn The conclusion or apodosis is now introduced.

² sn Laughing at the consequences of the fool’s rejection of wisdom does convey hardness against the fool; it reveals the folly of rejecting wisdom (e.g., Ps 2:4). It vindicates wisdom and the appropriateness of the disaster (D. Kidner, Proverbs [TOTC], 60).

³ tn Heb “at your disaster.” The 2nd person masculine singular suffix is either (1) a genitive of worth: “the disaster due you” or (2) an objective genitive: “disaster strikes you.” The term “disaster” (אֵיד, ’ed) often refers to final life-ending calamity (Prov 6:15; 24:22; BDB 15 s.v. 3). The preposition ב (bet) focuses upon time here.

⁴ tn Heb “your dread” (so NASB); KJV “your fear”; NRSV “panic.” The 2nd person masculine singular suffix is a subjective genitive: “that which you dread.”

⁵ tn Heb “the master, the Lord who commands armies [traditionally, the Lord of hosts].” On the title “the Lord who commands armies,” see the note at v. 9.

⁶ tn Heb “the powerful [one] of Israel.”

⁷ tn Heb “console myself” (i.e., by getting revenge); NRSV “pour out my wrath on.”

⁸ sn The Lord here identifies with the oppressed and comes as their defender and vindicator.

⁹ tn Or “calm myself.”

¹⁰ tn The Hebrew noun translated “jealousy” is used in the human realm to describe suspicion of adultery (Num 5:14ff.; Prov 6:34). Since Israel’s relationship with God was often compared to a marriage this term is appropriate here. The term occurs elsewhere in Ezekiel in 8:3, 5; 16:38, 42; 23:25.

¹¹ tn Heb “turn from his way.”

¹² tn Heb “ways.” This same word is translated “behavior” earlier in the verse.