Ezekiel 35:13
Ver. 13. Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me,.... Or, "magnified against me" {a}; 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, Re 13:5, 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 {b} 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.{a} yle wlydgt "magnificastis contra me", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Polanus, Cocceius, Starckius. {b} Mtrtex ab rte "orare suppliciter". Ezekiel 35:14Ver. 14. Thus saith the Lord God, when the whole earth rejoiceth,.... When it shall go well with the world in general, and the inhabitants of it; when they shall enjoy great peace and prosperity. Jarchi has a very good note upon this clause,"when I shall take my kingdom; for then the earth will rejoice, as it is said, the Lord reigns, let the earth rejoice;''so when Christ takes to himself his great power, and reigns, his church and people will rejoice, Re 11:16, as well as at the destruction of antichrist, as follows:I will make thee desolate; for so some render it, "the whole earth rejoiceth when I make thee desolate"; or, "so shall all the earth rejoice in the desolation which I shall make for thee" {c}; see Re 18:20 and which agrees with what follows:{c} "Sic laetabitur omnis terra in desolatione quam faciam tibi", Vatablus. Ezekiel 35:15Ver. 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, Ob 1:12, and so the followers of the man of sin will rejoice at the slaying of the witnesses, Re 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.
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