Proverbs 1:32 Cross References - NSB

³² »Sin and self-satisfaction bring destruction and death to stupid fools.

¹⁵ »Jeshurun (Israel) grew fat and disrespectful. You got fat! You were stuffed! You over eat! He abandoned the God who made him and scornfully treated the rock of his salvation. ¹⁶ »They made God furious because they worshiped foreign gods and angered him (stirred up his zeal) because they worshiped worthless idols. ¹⁷ »They sacrificed to demons that are not God. They served gods they did not know. These were new gods who came from nearby, gods your ancestors never worshiped. ¹⁸ »You ignored the rock that fathered you and forgot the God who gave you life. ¹⁹ »Jehovah saw this and rejected them. His own sons and daughters made him angry. ²⁰ »He said: ‘I will turn away from them and find out what will happen to them. They are a devious and perverse generation. They are children who have no faith. ²¹ »They made him furious because they worshiped foreign gods. They angered him because they worshiped worthless idols. So I will use those who are not my people to make them jealous and a nation of godless fools to make them angry. ²² My anger has started a fire that will burn into the depths of the grave. It will consume the earth and its crops and set the foundations of the mountains on fire. ²³ »I will heap distress on them! I will use my arrows on them. ²⁴ »They will be wasted by famine, and consumed by plague and bitter destruction. I will send teeth of wild animals on them, with the venom of crawling things (reptiles) of the dust. ²⁵ »Outside the sword will bereave. Inside terror shall destroy both young man and virgin, babies and old man with gray hair. ²⁶ »I would have said: ‘I will cut them to pieces. I will remove the memory of them from men.’ ²⁷ »I did not want their enemies to make me angry. I did not want their opponents to misunderstand and say: We won this victory! Jehovah did not do all this! ²⁸ »My people have lost their good sense. They do not understand. ²⁹ They fail to see why they were defeated. They cannot understand what happened. ³⁰ »Why were a thousand defeated by one? Why ten thousand by only two? Jehovah their God abandoned them! Their mighty God gave them up. ³¹ »Their rock is not like our rock! Their enemies know that their own gods are weak, not mighty like Israel's God. ³² »Their vine is like the vine of Sodom. Their fields are like Gomorrah. Their grapes are grapes of anger. Their clusters are bitter. ³³ »Their wine is the poison of serpents, and the cruel venom of asps (cobras). ³⁴ »Is this not laid up in store with me and sealed up among my treasures? ³⁵ »Vengeance and retribution belong to me. (Vengeance is mine, I will repay.) Their foot shall slide in time, for the day of their calamity is at hand. The things to come on them come quickly. ³⁶ »Jehovah will bring his people justice. He will have compassion on his servants. He sees that their power is gone, and only the imprisoned and abandoned remain. ³⁷ »He will say: ‘Where are their gods, the rock in which they sought refuge? ³⁸ »Who ate the fat of their sacrifices? Who drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them rise up and help you. Let them be your hiding place! ³⁹ »See now that I, even I, am he. There is no god besides me! It is I who put to death and give life. I have wounded and it is I who heals. There is no one who can deliver from my hand. ⁴⁰ »Indeed, I lift up my hand to heaven, and say: As I live forever, ⁴¹ »I sharpen my flashing sword, and my hand takes hold on justice! I will render vengeance on my adversaries. I will repay those who hate me. ⁴² »I will make my arrows drunk with blood. My sword will devour flesh with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the longhaired leaders of the enemy. ⁴³ »Rejoice you nations with his people. He will avenge the blood of his servants. He will render vengeance on his adversaries, and will atone for his land and his people.« ⁴⁴ Then Moses came, along with Joshua son of Nun, and spoke all the words of this song in the hearing of the people.

²² Let their table before them become a snare. Let it become retribution and a trap.

⁶ A stupid (senseless) person cannot know and a fool cannot understand. ⁷ Wicked people sprout like grass and all troublemakers flourish. Yet they will be destroyed forever.

³⁶ »But he who sins against me wrongs himself. All who hate me love death.«

¹⁹ »Your own wickedness will correct you. Your apostasies (unfaithful ways) will punish you! You should know and see how evil and bitter it is for you when you abandon Jehovah your God! You do not respect (reverence) me,« says the Sovereign Lord Jehovah of Hosts.

¹¹ Jehovah said: »Moab has always lived secure and has never been taken into exile. Moab is like wine left to settle undisturbed and never poured from jar to jar. Its flavor has never been ruined, and it tastes as good as ever. ¹² »‘So now, the time is coming when I will send people to pour Moab out like wine. They will empty its wine jars and break them in pieces.

¹⁶ He spoke an illustration to them: »The land of a rich man produced well. ¹⁷ »He reasoned to himself, what will I do? I have nowhere to store my fruits? ¹⁸ »He said: »I would pull down my barns and build larger barns. I will store all my grain and goods there. ¹⁹ »I will say to my self: ‘You have many possessions saved for many years. Take it easy and eat, drink and be merry.’ ²⁰ »But God said to him: ‘You fool this night you will give up your life. Then who will have all these things you accumulated?’ ²¹ »He who lays up (earthly) treasure for himself is not rich toward God.«

¹⁹ »A rich man dressed in the most expensive clothes and lived in great luxury every day. ²⁰ »A poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, used to be brought to the rich man’s door. ²¹ »He hoped he could eat the bits of food that fell from the rich man’s table. Then the dogs would come and lick his sores. ²² »The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man died and was buried. ²³ »He was in great torment in the grave (hades). He looked up and saw Abraham, far away, with Lazarus at his side. ²⁴ »He called out: Father Abraham! Take pity on me! Please send Lazarus to dip his finger in some water and cool off my tongue. I am in torment in this fire! ²⁵ »Abraham said: Remember, my son, in your lifetime you were given good things, while Lazarus got all the bad things. Now he is enjoying himself while you are in torment.

³⁶ »He who puts active faith in the Son has everlasting life. He who disobeys* the Son will not see life for the wrath of God remains upon him.« (*Greek: apeitheo: willfully disobey, not having faith)

³⁸ »My righteous people will live by faith. If any of them turn back, I will not be pleased with them.« ³⁹ We are not people who turn back and are destroyed. Instead, we have faith and are saved.

⁸ If you are without discipline, you are illegitimate children, and not sons.

²⁵ Be careful, then, and do not refuse to hear him who speaks. Those who refused to hear the one who gave the divine message on earth did not escape. How much less shall we escape then, if we turn away from the one who speaks from heaven!

⁵ You lived in luxury on the earth, and take your pleasure; you nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.