Ezekiel 35:13

13 "And you have ¹spoken * arrogantly against Me and have multiplied your words against Me; ²I 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," declares the Lord GOD, "I will deal with you according to your anger and according to your envy which you showed because of your hatred against them; so I will make Myself known among them when I judge you.

12 "Then you will know that I, the LORD , have heard all your revilings which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel saying, 'They are laid desolate; they are given to us for food.'

13 "And you have spoken arrogantly against Me and have multiplied your words against Me; I have heard it."

14 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "As all the earth rejoices, I will make you a desolation.

15 "As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, so I will do to you. You will be a desolation, O Mount Seir, and all Edom, all of it. Then they will know that I am the LORD ."'

Cross References

• 1. Isaiah 10:13, 14; Isaiah 36:20; Jeremiah 48:26, 42; Daniel 11:36
• 2. Jeremiah 7:11; Jeremiah 29:23

Footnotes

• [a] Lit "made great with your mouth"