Ezekiel 36:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the enemy hath said against you, Aha, even the ancient high places are ours in possession: Ye mountains of Israel - in contrast to "mount Seir" of the previous prophecy. They are here personified; Israel's elevation is moral, not merely physical, as Edom's. Her hills are "the everlasting hills" of Jacob's prophecy (Genesis 49:26). "The enemy" (Edom, the singled-out representative of all God's foes), with a shout of exultation, "Aha!" had claimed, as the nearest kinsmen of Israel (the brother of their father Esau), his vacated inheritance, as much as to say, the so-called, "everlasting" inheritance of Israel and of the "hills," which typified the unmoved perpetuity of it, has come to an end, in spite of the promise of God, and has become "ours" (cf. Psalms 125:1-2; Deuteronomy 32:13; Deuteronomy 33:15, "The ancient mountains ... the lasting hills").