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.

They're 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 shodenfroyda. 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,

Schoddenfroyda 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. 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 fork 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 ancient

text, so we'll just deal with Moab here.

The Moabites are distant relatives of the Israelites, but their sin is that they didn't

acknowledge Israel's unique relationship with Yahweh. They regarded them as

indistinct from the pagan nations. Then God moves on to Edam. They acted with

vengeance and cruelty toward Judah. So in this particular oracle, God says he will use

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