Ezekiel 25:6 For thus says the Lord God: Because you have clapped your hands and stamped your feet and rejoiced with all the malice within your soul against the land of Israel, 7 therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand against you, and will hand you over as plunder to the nations. And I will cut you off from the peoples and will make you perish out of the countries; I will destroy you. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
People love to rejoice over the misfortunes of others, often their neighbors. In this chapter four of those "neighbors" are mentioned by name: the Ammonites, Moabites, Edomites, and Philistines - names we see often throughout the history of Israel. They rejoiced to see Jerusalem and Judea fall, but the same thing was going to happen to them. We note here that Ezekiel was viewing all of this from the distance, from Babylon. Sometimes we are so close to a situation we are blinded to the bigger picture. So was the case of these enemies of Israel: they were so focused on seeing Jerusalem fall they were oblivious to their own. May we not be so blinding to the failures of others (and excited over their failure) that we miss what is happening to us, inside and out.
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