Ezekiel 35
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9. shall not return--to their former state ( Ezekiel 16:55 ); shall not be restored. The Hebrew text (Chetib) reads, "shall not be inhabited" (compare Ezekiel 26:20 , Malachi 1:3 Malachi 1:4 ).
10. So far from being allowed to enter on Israel's vacated inheritance, as Edom hoped ( Ezekiel 36:5 , Psalms 83:4 Psalms 83:12 , Obadiah 1:13 ), it shall be that he shall be deprived of his own; and whereas Israel's humiliation was temporary, Edom's shall be perpetual.
Lord was there--( Ezekiel 48:35 , Psalms 48:1 Psalms 48:3 , Psalms 132:13 Psalms 132:14 ). Jehovah claimed Judea as His own, even when the Chaldeans had overthrown the state; they could not remove Him, as they did the idols of heathen lands. The broken sentences express the excited feelings of the prophet at Edom's wicked presumption. The transition from the "two nations and two countries" to "it" marks that the two are regarded as one whole. The last clause, "and Jehovah was there," bursts in, like a flash of lightning, reproving the wicked presumption of Edom's thought.
11. according to thine anger--( James 2:13 ). As thou in anger and envy hast injured them, so I will injure thee.
I will make myself known among them--namely, the Israelites. I will manifest My favor to them, after I have punished thee.
12, 13. blasphemies . . . against . . . Israel . . . against me--God regards what is done against His people as done against Himself ( Matthew 25:45 , Acts 9:2 Acts 9:4 Acts 9:5 ). Edom implied, if he did not express it, in his taunts against Israel, that God had not sufficient power to protect His people. A type of the spirit of all the foes of God and His people ( 1 Samuel 2:3 , Revelation 13:6 ).
14. ( Isaiah 65:13 Isaiah 65:14 ). "The whole earth" refers to Judea and the nations that submit themselves to Judea's God; when these rejoice, the foes of God and His people, represented by Edom as a nation, shall be desolate. Things shall be completely reversed; Israel, that now for a time mourns, shall then rejoice and for ever. Edom, that now rejoices over fallen Israel, shall then, when elsewhere all is joy, mourn, and for ever ( Isaiah 65:17-19 , Matthew 5:4 , Luke 6:25 ). HAVERNICK loses this striking antithesis by translating, "According to the joy of the whole land (of Edom), so I will make thee desolate"; which would make Ezekiel 35:15 a mere repetition of this.
15. ( Obadiah 1:12 Obadiah 1:15 ).