Ezekiel 35:13

13 You have magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard it.

Ezekiel 35:13 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 35:13

Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me
Or, "magnified against me" ^F1; spoke great swelling words of vanity, or had a mouth opened to speak great things and blasphemy against God, as antichrist is said to do, ( Revelation 13:5 Revelation 13:6 ) , what is spoken against the Lord's people is taken by him as spoken against himself: and have multiplied your words against me;
not in prayer, by deprecations or supplications, as the word ^F2 used sometimes signifies; but in reproaches and calumnies, vilifying expressions and hard speeches, against his people, in great numbers; which is all one as if they were directed against him: I have heard them;
these the Lord takes notice of, and will call to an account for, either here or hereafter; see ( Jude 1:15 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F1 (yle wlydgt) "magnificastis contra me", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Polanus, Cocceius, Starckius.
F2 (Mtrtex) ab (rte) "orare suppliciter".

Ezekiel 35:13 In-Context

11 therefore, as I live, says the Lord GOD, I will do according to your anger, and according to your envy which you have shown out of your hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I shall judge you.

12 You shall know that I, the LORD, have heard all your insults which you have spoken against the mountains of Yisra'el, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to devour.

13 You have magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard it.

14 Thus says the Lord GOD: When the whole eretz rejoices, I will make you desolate.

15 As you did rejoice over the inheritance of the house of Yisra'el, because it was desolate, so will I do to you: you shall be desolate, Mount Se`ir, and all Edom, even all of it; and they shall know that I am the LORD.