Ezekiel 35:15

15 {Like your rejoicing over the inheritance of the house of Israel} {because} it was desolate, I will do to you; you will be [a] desolation, mountain of Seir and all of Edom, indeed all of it; and they will know that I [am] Yahweh.'" '

Ezekiel 35:15 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 35:15

As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of
Israel, because it was desolate
So Edom rejoiced at the destruction of Jerusalem, ( Obadiah 1:12 ) , and so the followers of the man of sin will rejoice at the slaying of the witnesses, ( Revelation 11:10 ) , which is resented by the Lord, and therefore adds, so will I do unto thee;
make thee desolate, as is explained in the next clause: thou shall be desolate, O Mount Seir, and all Idumea, even all of it;
not that mount only, but all the land of Edom, called Idumea; the destruction shall be general, as it was, and irretrievable; and so not Rome only, but all the antichristian states, will be destroyed, when God comes forth in his wrath against them: and they shall know that I am the Lord;
the Lord God omniscient and omnipotent; who, having foretold all this, shall accomplish it.

Ezekiel 35:15 In-Context

13 And you magnified yourself against me with your {insolent speech}, and you spoke voluminously against me [with] your words--I heard!

14 Thus the Lord Yahweh says, '{As the whole world rejoices}, I will make you [a] desolation.

15 {Like your rejoicing over the inheritance of the house of Israel} {because} it was desolate, I will do to you; you will be [a] desolation, mountain of Seir and all of Edom, indeed all of it; and they will know that I [am] Yahweh.'" '

Footnotes

• [a] Literally "as/like rejoicing your for the inheritance of the house of Israel"
• [b] Literally "because that"