And it shall come to pass, [that] as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it.
Ver. 63. So the Lord will rejoice over you.] See here the venomous nature of sin, so far forth offensive to Almighty God, as to cause him, who otherwise afflicts not willingly, Lam 3:33 but delights in mercy, Mic 7:18 to rejoice in the ruin of his creatures, as here, to laugh at their destruction, and mock when their fear cometh, Pro 1:26 to take as much pleasure therein as a man would do in a cup of generous wine, Rev 16:19 and to be as much eased thereby, as one over-gorged would be in ridding his stomach of that which oppressed it. Rev 3:16