Ezekiel 35:13

“Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, &c.] Or, “magnified against me”f597; 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, (<661305>Revelation 13:5,6), 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 wordf598 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…”

“35:13-15 The Edomites mistakenly assumed that God’s judgment of his people and his abandonment of the Temple meant that his covenant with Israel was no longer in effect. The Edomites had boasted and elevated themselves against both Israel and the Lord. The God of Israel would not tolerate such boasting, for he is the sovereign Lord of all. His choice of Israel and his giving them the land would not be revoked.”

“with: Sa1 2:3; Ch2 32:15, Ch2 32:19; Isa 10:13-19, Isa 36:20, Isa 37:10, Isa 37:23, Isa 37:29; Dan 11:36; Mal 3:13; Pe2 2:18; Jde 1:15; Rev 13:5, Rev 13:6 boasted: Heb. magnified have multiplied: Job 34:37, Job 35:16; Psa 73:8, Psa 73:9; Ecc 10:14 \*marg. I have: Eze 35:12; Exo 16:12; Num 14:27; Kg2 19:28; Jer 29:23 Ezekiel 35:14”