Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble, and I'm your host for the Bible recap.

Today we read prophecies against lots of the enemies of God's people.

Their pagan nations who, like God's people, have also been acting wickedly.

First up, in Chapter 25 are the Ammonites, and God's main beef with them is their shodden

foiter.

If you're not familiar with that weird sounding word, it just means they find pleasure in someone

else's struggle.

If you really want to simplify it, shodden foiter is the reason we laugh at videos of people

slipping on ice.

But for the Ammonites, it was far more sinister.

They loved watching the temple be defiled, the land be destroyed, and the people of Judah

be killed and exiled.

They literally celebrated death and destruction.

We know from yesterday that the exiles of Judah weren't allowed to mourn the destruction

of Jerusalem since, after all, they were responsible for it, but that's a far cry from celebrating

it.

God says he will send people from the east to destroy the Ammonites, and we already know

from prior prophecies in Chapter 21 that those people from the east are the Babylonians.

This is where the Babylonians take the second work in the road, after having destroyed Jerusalem

first.

Next up are Moab and Seer, but probably just Moab.

There might be a note in your Bible that the word Seer doesn't appear in a lot of the

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