For the Lord Yahweh says: “Because you have clapped your hands, stamped with the feet, and rejoiced with all the contempt of your soul against the land of Israel;
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For the Lord Yahweh says: “Because you have clapped your hands, stamped with the feet, and rejoiced with all the contempt of your soul against the land of Israel;
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For thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast clapped thine hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart with all thy despite against the land of Israel;
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For thus saith the Lord GOD: Because thou hast clapped thy hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced with all the disdain of thy soul against the land of Israel;
Cross-references (15)
Passages linked to Ezekiel 25:6 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Obadiah 1:12 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.
- Zephaniah 2:8 I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the insults of the children of Ammon, with which they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.
- Zephaniah 2:10 This they will have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Yahweh of Armies.
- Job 27:23 Men will clap their hands at him, and will hiss him out of his place.
- Ezekiel 6:11 “The Lord Yahweh says: ‘Strike with your hand, and stamp with your foot, and say, “Alas!” Because of all the evil abominations of the house of Israel; for they will fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.
- Ezekiel 25:15 “ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Because the Philistines have taken revenge, and have taken vengeance with contempt of soul to destroy with perpetual hostility;”
- Ezekiel 36:5 therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Surely in the fire of my jealousy I have spoken against the residue of the nations, and against all Edom, that have appointed my land to themselves for a possession with the joy of all their heart, with despite of soul, to cast it out for a prey.” ’
- Nahum 3:19 There is no healing your wound, for your injury is fatal. All who hear the report of you clap their hands over you; for who hasn’t felt your endless cruelty?
- Nehemiah 4:3-4 Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, “What they are building, if a fox climbed up it, he would break down their stone wall.” “Hear, our God; for we are despised. Turn back their reproach on their own head. Give them up for a plunder in a land of captivity.
- Job 34:37 For he adds rebellion to his sin. He claps his hands among us, and multiplies his words against God.”
- Proverbs 24:17 Don’t rejoice when your enemy falls. Don’t let your heart be glad when he is overthrown,
- Jeremiah 48:27 For wasn’t Israel a derision to you? Was he found among thieves? For as often as you speak of him, you shake your head.
- Lamentations 2:15 All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city that men called ‘The perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth’?”
- Ezekiel 35:15 As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, so I will do to you. You will be desolate, Mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.’ ”
- Zephaniah 2:15 This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, that said in her heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me.” How she has become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her will hiss, and shake their fists.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Eze 25:6 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Because…
Eze 25:6 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast clapped [thine] hands, and stamped with the feet, and rejoiced in heart with all thy despite against the land of Israel;
Ver. 6. Because thou hast clapped thine hands.] Manibus plaudis, pedibus complodis, &c. God is very sensible of the least indignity and injury, affront or offence, done to his poor people, by words, looks, gestures, &c. Cavete. Beware.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Clapped thine hands; expressed thy joy in that insolent…
Clapped thine hands; expressed thy joy in that insolent manner.
And stamped with the feet; and added this sign of more than ordinary joy at this.
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Rejoiced in heart; it was that which affected thy heart with gladness, thy soul and mind were in this thy rejoicing.
Despite; hatred and contempt; thou wast heartily glad such vile people, as thou countedst them, were made, what thou thoughtest they best deserved, slaves. beggars, and captives.
The land, for the people. Israel; either the ten tribes, or rather the two tribes, with the small remnant of the others that kept to the house of David.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain For thus saith the Lord God,.... Their sin and…
For thus saith the Lord God,.... Their sin and punishment are further enlarged upon:
because thou hast clapped thine hands, and stamped with thy feet: gestures expressive of joy and gladness, Isa 55:12, the Ammonites clapped their hands together, and leaped and skipped for joy, when they heard of the calamities of the Jews; who yet had more reason to be sorrowful, since they might expect their turn would be next; for the king of Babylon had a design against them, at the same time he came against Jerusalem, and was in doubt for a while which he should attack first; see Eze 21:20,
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and rejoiced in heart with all thy despite against the land of Israel; they had a secret joy in their heart, which they expressed by gestures, in the most spiteful and scornful manner they were capable of; which showed the wretched malignity of their dispositions against the children of Israel; they hated them with a perfect hatred.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain "Because thou hast clapped thine hands," exulting over the…
"Because thou hast clapped thine hands," exulting over the downfall of Jerusalem, "I also will stretch out Mine hand upon thee" (to which Eze 21:17 also may refer, "I will smite Mine hands together").
hands . . . feet . . . heart--with the whole inward feeling, and with every outward indication. Stamping with the foot means dancing for joy.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 6. Despite — Contempt. (Compare Wyclif’s translation of Rom_9:21…
6. Despite — Contempt. (Compare Wyclif’s translation of Rom_9:21 : “oo vessel into onour, anothir into dispyte.”)
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 6. clapped thine hands] A gesture of malicious delight,…
6. clapped thine hands] A gesture of malicious delight, Lam_2:15.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (6) Clapped thine hands, and stamped with the feet.—See…
(6) Clapped thine hands, and stamped with the feet.—See Eze_6:11 and Note there.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 You have clapped your hands and stamped your feet
You have clapped your hands and stamped your feet
These actions are ways to show strong emotions. In this case the people are cheering and showing their contempt against Israel. (See: Symbolic Action)
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all the contempt within you against the land of Israel
Here the phrase "the land of Israel" represents the people who live there. AT: "all of the hatred you feel towards the people who live in Israel" (See: Metonymy)
behold
"look" or "listen" or "pay attention to what i am about to tell you"
I will strike you with my hand
"I will hit you with my powerful hand." Here Yahweh speaks of punishing the people as if he were literally hitting them with his hand. AT: "I will punish you" (See: Metaphor)
give you as plunder to the nations
The word "you" refers to the people of Ammon but is also a metonym for their land and their possessions. AT: "I will allow enemies to defeat you and take you, your land, and your possessions as plunder" (See: Metonymy)
I will cut you off from the peoples ... make you perish from among the countries
These phrases mean basically the same thing and emphasize that Yahweh will completely destroy the people of Ammon so that they are no longer a nation. AT: "I will completely destroy you so that you are no longer a nation" (See: Parallelism)
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joy
hand
nation
cut off
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