Ezekiel 35
Verse 2
Son of man, set thy face against mount 1 Seir, and prophesy against it,
Where the Idumeans dwelt.
Verse 5
Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their 1 iniquity had an end:
When by their punishment I called them from their iniquity.
Verse 6
Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee to blood, and blood shall pursue thee: since thou hast not 1 hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.
Except you repent your former cruelty.
Verse 9
I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not 1 return: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
That is, to their former estate.
Verse 10
Because thou hast said, 1 These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; though the LORD was 2 there:
Meaning, Israel and Judah.
And so by fighting against God's people they should go about to put him out of his own possession.
Verse 11
Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do according to thy 1 anger, and according to thy envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among 2 them, when I have judged thee.
As you have done cruelly, so will you be cruelly handled.
Showing that when God punishes the enemies, the godly ought to consider that he has a care over them and so praise his name: and also that the wicked rage as though there were no God, till they feel his hand to their destruction.