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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ezekiel 35:5 - 35:5
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perpetual hatred - (Psa 137:7; Amo 1:11; Oba 1:10-16). Edom perpetuated the hereditary hatred derived from Esau against Jacob.
shed the blood of, etc. - The literal translation is better. “Thou hast poured out the children of Israel”; namely, like water. So Psa 22:14; Psa 63:10, Margin; Jer 18:21. Compare 2Sa 14:14.
by the force of the sword - literally, “by” or “upon the hands of the sword”; the sword being personified as a devourer whose “hands” were the instruments of destruction.
in the time that their iniquity had an end - that is, had its consummation (Eze 21:25, Eze 21:29). Edom consummated his guilt when he exulted over Jerusalem’s downfall, and helped the foe to destroy it (Psa 137:7; Oba 1:11).