Ezekiel 35:1--36:15
turn <07760> [set.]
Mount <02022> [mount.]
prophesy <05012> [and prophesy.]
stretch <05186> [I am.]
stretch <05186> [and I will stretch.]
desolate ruin <08077 04923> [most desolate. Heb. desolation and desolation.]
lay <07760> [lay.]
desolate ..... know <08077 03045> [and thou.]
unrelenting <05769> [thou hast had.]
unrelenting hostility <0342 05769> [perpetual hatred. or, hatred of old.]
poured ... people <05064 01121> [shed the blood of. Heb. poured out. force. Heb. hands.]
time ....... time <06256> [in the.]
<06213> [I will.]
Since <0518> [sith.]
desolate ruin <08077> [most desolate. Heb. desolation and desolation.]
passes <05674> [passeth.]
<05414> [I will make.]
After being subdued by Nebuchadnezzar, about five years after the destruction of Jerusalem, many of the Edomites, during the Babylonian captivity, being driven from their ancient habitation by the Nabatheans, seized upon the south-western part of Judea; but afterwards they were conquered by Hyrcanus, and reduced to the necessity of embracing the Jewish religion; and at last became either incorporated with that nation, or swallowed up and lost among the Nabathean Arabs, so that the very name was abolished and disused about the end of the first century after Christ. Their country is now barren; and their cities, even Bozra and Petra, totally demolished and in ruins.
perpetual <05769> [perpetual.]
know <03045> [and ye.]
said <0559> [thou hast.]
Lord <03068> [whereas. or, though.]
deal ................ acted <06213> [I will even.]
reveal <03045> [and I.]
know <03045> [And thou.]
heard <08085> [I have heard.]
given <05414> [they are given.]
food <0402> [consume. Heb. devour.]
speech <06310> [with.]
exalted <01431> [boasted. Heb. magnified. have multiplied.]
heard <08085> [I have.]
rejoiced <08057> [didst.]
desolate <08077> [shalt.]
Edom <0123> [Idumea.]
know <03045> [and they.]
mountains ....... mountains <02022> [the mountains.]
hear <08085> [hear.]
enemy <0341> [Because.]
ancient <05769> [even.]
[our's.]
desolate <08074> [Because. Heb. Because for because.]
desolate <08074> [they have made.]
crushed <07602> [swallowed.]
become <05927> [and ye.]
become ..... gossip <08193 03956 05927> [taken up in the lips of talkers. or, made to come upon the lip of the tongue. and are.]
mountains .................... mountains <02022> [mountains.]
ravines <0650> [rivers. or, bottoms, or dales. desolate.]
prey <0957> [a prey.]
fire <0784> [Surely.]
rest <07611> [against the.]
Edom <0123> [against all.]
made <05414> [appointed.]
joy <08057> [with the.]
utter <07589> [with despiteful.]
endure <05375> [I have lifted.]
nations <01471> [the heathen.]
grow <05414> [ye shall.]
<07126> [for.]
The Edomites, and other enemies of the Jews, who thought they would soon be in possession of the whole land of Judea, might be assured that the predicted seventy years of the captivity were wearing away, and the time would soon arrive when the Jews would repossess and cultivate their own land, and eat its fruits.
<07126> [at hand.]
multiply <07235> [I will.]
ruins <02723> [the wastes.]
increase ............ increase <07235> [I will multiply.]
inhabited <03427> [and I will settle.]
The circumstances of the Jews were never so prosperous after the captivity as they had been before; hence this prophecy must refer to the times of the Gospel and the future conversion and restoration of the Jews.
more good <02895> [will do.]
know <03045> [and ye.]
people <0120> [I will cause.]
The prophet is still personifying the mountains, valleys, and wastes of Judea.
possess <03423> [they shall.]
<03254> [no more.]
<07921> [no more.]
<07921> [bereave. or, cause to fail.]
I ..... subject <08085> [men.]
bear <05375> [thou bear.]
