Thirteenthly, Shedding of the blood of the Just, is a crying §13sin that brings the Judgment of Fire, and lays all desolate, Ezek. 35. 4, 5. 7. I will lay thy cities waste, and thou 1shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord. Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred (or hatred of old) 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 iniquity had an end. Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passeth out, and him that returneth. Vers. 10. Because thou hast said these two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possessit, whereas the Lord was there. Vers. 11. Therefore as I live, saith the Lord God, I will even do according •o thine anger, and according to thine envy ⟨p. 155⟩which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them: and I will make my self known among them when I have judged thee. Vers. 12. And thou shalt know that I am the Lord, and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume (or devour.) Vers. 13. Thus with your mouth you have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me, I have heard them. Vers. 14. Thus saith the Lord God, when the whole earth rejoiceth I will make thee desolate. Vers. 15. As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee, Thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Idumea, even all of it, and they shall know that I am the Lord. The Edomites were deadly enemies to the Israelites, their hatred was old and strong, and active against them; and they took hold on all occasions wherein they might express their rage and cruelty against them, both in words and works. And therefore 2when the Babylonians took Jerusalem, they cried, Raze it, Raze it, even to the foundation thereof. When the Babylonians entered Jerusalem, many of the Jews fled to the Edomites for succour, they being their brethren; but instead of sheltering them, they cruelly destroyed them, and greatly insulted over them, and were glad of all opportunities wherein they might vent all their rage and malice against them, that so they might the better ingratiate themselves with the Babylonians.
Thirteenthly, Shedding of the blood of the Just, is a crying §13sin that brings the Judgment of Fire, and lays all desolate, Ezek. 35. 4, 5. 7. I will lay thy cities waste, and thou 1shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord. Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred (or hatred of old) 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 iniquity had an end. Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passeth out, and him that returneth. Vers. 10. Because thou hast said these two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possessit, whereas the Lord was there. Vers. 11. Therefore as I live, saith the Lord God, I will even do according •o thine anger, and according to thine envy ⟨p. 155⟩which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them: and I will make my self known among them when I have judged thee. Vers. 12. And thou shalt know that I am the Lord, and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume (or devour.) Vers. 13. Thus with your mouth you have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me, I have heard them. Vers. 14. Thus saith the Lord God, when the whole earth rejoyceth I will make thee desolate. Vers. 15. As thou didst rejoyce at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee, Thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Idumea, even all of it, and they shall know that I am the Lord. The Edomites were deadly enemies to the Israelites, their hatred was old and strong, and active against them; and they took hold on all occasions wherein they might express their rage and cruelty against them, both in words and works. And therefore 2when the Babylonians took Jerusalem, they cryed, Rase it, Rase it, even to the foundation thereof. When the Babylonians entred Jerusalem, many of the Jews fled to the Edomites for succour, they being their brethren; but instead of sheltring them, they cruelly destroyed them, and greatly insulted over them, and were glad of all opportunities wherin they might vent all their rage and malice against them, that so they might the better ingratiate themselves with the Babylonians.
- 1See Ezek. 21. 28. 31, 32. And Chap. 25. 3, 4, 5.
- 2Psal. 137. 7.
