Ezekiel 36:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Surely; in the Hebrew it is in the form of an oath. In the fire; in my hot displeasure. Spoken against; threatened ruin and desolation to all the nations that are and have been enemies to Israel. Idumea; the land in which the Edomites dwelt; the Hebrew is Edom. Have appointed my land; have given or delivered, helped to take the land from my people, and then left it in the hand of the Chaldeans, in hope it should be given back to them for their possession. With the joy of all their heart; transported with joy; Jacob's children put out, the heathen came in to possess the land, with rancorous minds, swelling with hatred, and from that acting with the utmost vigour to slay the inhabitants, that there might be no pretenders to the land, but that they might inherit it.

Ezekiel 36:5

5 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and against all Idumea, which have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all their heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey.