18:16 So their land will become an object of horror.
People will forever hiss out their scorn over it.
All who pass that way will be filled with horror
and will shake their heads in derision.
25:12 “‘But when the seventy years are over, I will punish the king of Babylon and his nation
49:17 “Edom will become an object of horror.
All who pass by it will be filled with horror;
they will hiss out their scorn
because of all the disasters that have happened to it.
51:37 Babylon will become a heap of ruins.
Jackals will make their home there.
It will become an object of horror and of hissing scorn,
a place where no one lives.
27:23 It claps
and hisses him away from his place.
“Look how the oppressor has met his end!
Hostility
14:5 The Lord has broken the club of the wicked,
the scepter of rulers.
14:6 It
with unceasing blows.
It angrily ruled over nations,
oppressing them without restraint.
14:7 The whole earth rests and is quiet;
they break into song.
14:8 The evergreens also rejoice over your demise,
as do the cedars of Lebanon, singing,
‘Since you fell asleep,
no woodsman comes up to chop us down!’
14:9 Sheol
ready to meet you when you arrive.
It rouses
all the former leaders of the earth;
it makes all the former kings of the nations
rise from their thrones.
14:10 All of them respond to you, saying:
‘You too have become weak like us!
You have become just like us!
14:11 Your splendor
as well as the sound of your stringed instruments.
You lie on a bed of maggots,
with a blanket of worms over you.
14:12 Look how you have fallen from the sky,
O shining one, son of the dawn!
You have been cut down to the ground,
O conqueror
14:13 You said to yourself,
“I will climb up to the sky.
Above the stars of El
I will set up my throne.
I will rule on the mountain of assembly
on the remote slopes of Zaphon.
14:14 I will climb up to the tops
I will make myself like the Most High!”
14:15 But you were brought down
to the remote slopes of the pit.
14:16 Those who see you stare at you,
they look at you carefully, thinking:
“Is this the man who shook the earth,
the one who made kingdoms tremble?
14:17 Is this the one who made the world like a desert,
who ruined its
and refused to free his prisoners so they could return home?”’
ס (Samek)
2:15 All who passed by on the road
clapped their hands to mock you.
They sneered and shook their heads
at Daughter Jerusalem.
“Ha! Is this the city they called
‘The perfection of beauty,
the source of joy of the whole earth!’?”
פ (Pe)
2:16 All your enemies
gloated over you.
They sneered and gnashed their teeth;
they said, “We have destroyed
Ha! We have waited a long time for this day.
We have lived to see it!”
2:6 “But all these nations will someday taunt him
and ridicule him with proverbial sayings:
‘The one who accumulates what does not belong to him is as good as dead
(How long will this go on?)
he who gets rich by extortion!’
2:7 Your creditors will suddenly attack;
those who terrify you will spring into action,
and they will rob you.
2:8 Because you robbed many countries,
all who are left among the nations
You have shed human blood
and committed violent acts against lands, cities,
2:9 The one who builds his house by unjust gain is as good as dead.
He does this so he can build his nest way up high
and escape the clutches of disaster.
2:10 Your schemes will bring shame to your house.
Because you destroyed many nations, you will self-destruct.
2:11 For the stones in the walls will cry out,
and the wooden rafters will answer back.
2:12 The one who builds a city by bloodshed is as good as dead
he who starts
2:13 Be sure of this! The Lord who commands armies has decreed:
The nations’ efforts will go up in smoke;
their exhausting work will be for nothing.
2:14 For recognition of the Lord’s sovereign majesty will fill the earth
just as the waters fill up the sea.
2:15 “You who force your neighbor to drink wine
you who make others intoxicated by forcing them to drink from the bowl of your furious anger,
so you can look at their genitals.
2:16 But you will become drunk
Now it is your turn to drink and expose your uncircumcised foreskin!
The cup of wine in the Lord’s right hand
and disgrace will replace your majestic glory!
2:17 For you will pay in full for your violent acts against Lebanon;
terrifying judgment will come upon you because of the way you destroyed the wild animals living there.
You have shed human blood
and committed violent acts against lands, cities, and those who live in them.
2:18 What good
What good is a metal image that gives misleading oracles?
Why would its creator place his trust in it
and make
2:15 This is how the once-proud city will end up
the city that was so secure.
She thought to herself,
What a heap of ruins she has become, a place where wild animals live!
Everyone who passes by her taunts her