This they shall have in return for their pride, for taunting and mocking the people of the LORD of Hosts.
Parallel translations
- WEB This they will have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Yahweh of Armies.
- KJV This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of hosts.
- NKJV This they shall have for their pride, Because they have reproached and made arrogant threats Against the people of the Lord of hosts.
- NASB This they will have in return for their arrogance, because they have taunted and boasted against the people of the Lord of armies.
- NLT They will receive the wages of their pride, for they have scoffed at the people of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
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Quick answer
This judgment comes upon Moab and Ammon because of their pride and contempt for God's people. It matters because it identifies pride against the Lord as the root of their downfall.
Overview
The verse names the cause directly: arrogance and reproach against the people of Yahweh of Armies. Scripture consistently teaches that God opposes the proud. Their fate warns every nation and person that exalting oneself against God invites judgment.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- Isa 16:6We have heard of Moab’s pomposity, his exceeding pride and conceit, his overflowing arrogance. But his boasting is empty.
- Jer 48:29We have heard of Moab’s pomposity, his exceeding pride and conceit, his proud arrogance and haughtiness of heart.
- Zeph 2:8“I have heard the reproach of Moab and the insults of the Ammonites, who have taunted My people and threatened their borders.
- Isa 37:22–29this is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: ‘The Virgin Daughter of Zion despises you and mocks you; the Daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head behind you.
- Dan 5:20–23But when his heart became arrogant and his spirit was hardened with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne, and his glory was taken from him.
- Dan 4:37Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, for all His works are true and all His ways are just. And He is able to humble those who walk in pride.
- Ezek 38:14–18Therefore prophesy, son of man, and tell Gog that this is what the Lord GOD says: On that day when My people Israel are dwelling securely, will you not take notice of this?
- Obad 1:3The pride of your heart has deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks whose habitation is the heights, who say in your heart, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’
- Exod 10:3So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and told him, “This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.
- 1 Pet 5:5Young men, in the same way, submit yourselves to your elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
- Exod 9:17Still, you lord it over My people and do not allow them to go.
- Isa 10:12–15So when the Lord has completed all His work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria for the fruit of his arrogant heart and the proud look in his eyes.
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