A perpetual hatred: Edom was of the same stock, brother to Jacob, and it was sin to disgust or envy, but greater to hate, and greatest to retain a perpetual hatred, an hereditary enmity from Esau's time, the father of the Edomites, till now: near one thousand two hundred years had the seed of Esau hated Jacob's seed for inheriting the blessing, which yet I have some cause to think they as little valued as their father did before them. Hast shed the blood, by sudden incursions sometimes, by a formed war at other times, and by taking side with those who warred upon him at all times; thus the sword of Edom was ever drawn or ready against Jacob's seed. By the force of the sword; with fierceness, cruelty, and burning hatred, as appears, Obadiah 1:11-14, which see. Their calamity; deepest calamity; when all was lost, and their city taken, and none to pity or help, then did Edom cruelly execute his hatred, Psalms 137:7. In the time that their iniquity had an end; when their iniquity was charged and punished on them, which brought them to final ruin. See Ezekiel 21:25.
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Ezekiel 35:5
5 Because thou hast had a perpetualb 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 iniquity had an end: