Zacarias 1:15

Almeida Revista e Corrigida

E, com grandssima ira, estou irado contra as naes em descanso; porque, estando eu um pouco desgostoso, eles auxiliaram no mal.

Parallel Translations

A Biblia Sagrada
E com grande indignao estou irado contra os gentios em descanso; porque eu estava pouco indignado, mas eles agravaram o mal.

Almeida Revista e Atualizada
E, com grande indignao, estou irado contra as naes que vivem confiantes; porque eu estava um pouco indignado, e elas agravaram o mal.

Bible Verse Review
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Zechariah 1:2, Zechariah 1:11, Isaiah 47:7-9, Jeremiah 48:11-13, Amos 6:1, Revelation 18:7, Revelation 18:8

for: Isaiah 54:8, Hebrews 12:6, Hebrews 12:7

and: Psalms 69:26, Psalms 83:2-5, Psalms 137:7, Isaiah 10:5-7, Isaiah 47:6, Jeremiah 51:24, Jeremiah 51:34, Jeremiah 51:35, Ezekiel 25:3-7, Ezekiel 25:12-17, Ezekiel 26:2, Ezekiel 29:6, Ezekiel 29:7, Ezekiel 25:3-9, Ezekiel 36:4, Ezekiel 36:5, Amos 1:3-13, Obadiah 1:10-16

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 32:27 - lest their 2 Samuel 24:14 - let me not 1 Kings 8:49 - cause 2 Chronicles 6:39 - cause 2 Chronicles 28:9 - because the Lord God Job 30:13 - they set forward Psalms 2:5 - sore Psalms 18:18 - me in Psalms 79:7 - For they Proverbs 24:18 - and he Isaiah 7:5 - Syria Isaiah 21:2 - all the Isaiah 40:2 - double Jeremiah 2:3 - all that Jeremiah 10:25 - eaten Jeremiah 12:14 - that Jeremiah 50:7 - We offend Jeremiah 50:13 - Because Jeremiah 50:33 - and all Lamentations 3:35 - turn Ezekiel 28:26 - when I Obadiah 1:13 - looked Habakkuk 2:8 - the violence Zechariah 2:8 - After Zechariah 6:8 - quieted Revelation 6:16 - and from

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And I am very sore displeased with the heathen [that are] at ease,.... The Chaldeans and Persians, and other nations, enemies of the Jews, who were now free from war, and enjoyed great prosperity, when the state and condition of the Jews was very low and discouraging:

for I was but a little displeased: that is, with his people the Jews, for their ingratitude, idolatry, and immorality; and which displeasure he showed by suffering them to be carried into captivity; see Isaiah 54:8:

and they helped forward the affliction; that is, the heathens, among whom the Jews were carried captive; they added to their affliction; they oppressed them more than they ought to have done, and more than was agreeable to the will of God and right in his sight; and they insulted them in their misery, and rejoiced over them. The word עזר, in the Arabic language, signifies to "abound" u; and the meaning is, that they abounded in bringing evil upon the people of the Jews; they multiplied their afflictions and distresses.

u "abundavit, multiplicavit", Golius, col. 1705. Castel. col. 2721. עזר "Jazar, cum ע punctato, exuberavit, abundavit, multus fuit", Schindler. Lex. Pentaglot. col. 1307.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I am sore displeased - literally “with great anger am I angered against the nations which are at ease.” The form of the words shows that the greatness of the displeasure of God against those who oppress His people, is proportionate to the great and tender love toward themselves. God had been angered indeed with His people; with their enemies He was “angered with a great anger;” and that the more, because they were at ease, in unfeeling self-enjoyment amid the miseries of others.

I was a little displeased - Little, in comparison with our deserts; little in comparison with the anger of the human instruments of His displeasure; little in comparison with theirs, who, in their anger, sought their own ends.

They helped forward the affliction - ^o “He is wroth with the nations at ease, because He delivered His people to be corrected, but they used cruelty toward those delivered; He wills them to be amended as a son by a schoolmaster; they set themselves to slay and punish them, as an enemy. Like that in Isaiah, “I gave them into thy hands; thou didst show them no mercy; upon the ancients hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke” Isaiah 47:6.

Or it may be, “helped for evil,” in order to bring about evil, as in Jeremiah, “Behold I set My face against you for evil, and to destroy all Judah” Jeremiah 44:11, that is, as we should say, they were the instruments of God, , “cooperated in the execution of My justice toward you, but cruelly and with perverse intention. For although the Assyrians and Chaldaeans wasted the Jewish people, God so ordaining in as far as He willed through them to punish in the present the sins of His people, yet they did it, not in view of God and out of zeal for righteousness, but out of pride covetousness and with the worst ends. Hence God says by Isaiah, “Woe to Asshur, the rod of Mine anger, and the staff in his hand is Mine indignation. Howbeit he thinketh not so, but his heart is to destroy and cut off nations not a few” Isaiah 10:5, Isaiah 10:7.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 15. I was but a little displeased — I was justly displeased with my people, and I gave their enemies a commission against them; but they carried this far beyond my design by oppression and cruelty; and now they shall suffer in their turn.