Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.
Edom's malice lays bare a hidden truth: troubles in God's church prove its friends faithful and unmask its enemies. Envy and hatred drove them to rejoice when Babylon razed Jerusalem, then to seize the land they had long coveted, thinking themselves heirs when Israel's line failed. Their sin was double: perpetual hatred fed by appetite.
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Commenting on Ezekiel 35:10-15
They magnified themselves against God by word and reproach, multiplying blasphemies against His people as if against Him directly. The Lord hears every vaunting word, every calumny, and will call them to account for it, either in this life or the judgment to come.
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Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me - Ye have said you would enter into those lands, and take them for your inheritance; though ye knew that God had promised them to the Israelites, and that you should never have them for your portion.