The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 35:5
Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred ; literally, hatred of old, or eternal enmity (cf. Ezekiel 25:15 ). This was the first of the two specific grounds upon which Eden should feel the stroke of Divine vengeance. Edom had been Israel's hereditary foe from the days of Esau and Jacob ( Genesis 25:22 , sqq . ; and Genesis 27:37 ) downwards. Inspired with unappeasable wrath ( Amos 1:11 ), during the period of the wandering he had refused Israel, "his brother," a passage through... read more
The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 35:4
They shall know that I am Jehovah . By this expressive formula Ezekiel intimates the moral effect which should be produced upon the nations of the earth, whether by beholding or by experiencing the Divine judgments ( Ezekiel 6:7 , Ezekiel 6:13 ; Ezekiel 7:4 , Ezekiel 7:9 ; Ezekiel 11:10 , Ezekiel 11:12 ; Ezekiel 13:9 , Ezekiel 13:14 , Ezekiel 13:21 , Ezekiel 13:23 ; Ezekiel 14:8 ; Ezekiel 15:7 , et passim; cf. Exodus 6:7 ; Exodus 7:1-25 :50 17; Exodus 29:46 ; ... read more