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Whereas Edom saith, We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places; thus saith Jehovah of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and men shall call them The border of wickedness, and The people against whom Jehovah hath indignation for ever.

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Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes

AlbertBarnes

18th Century
Presbyterian
18th Century

Whereas Edom says -

We are impoverished - ידשׁשׁ, or, more probably, “we were crushed.” Either interpretation provide…

Charles Ellicott

Charles Ellicott

CharlesEllicott

19th Century
Anglican
19th Century

Whereas ... says. —Better, If Edom says.

We are impoverished. —Better, we are broken to piece…

John Calvin

John Calvin

JohnCalvin

16th Century
Protestant
16th Century

I am compelled by the context to read all these verses, for the sense cannot be otherwise completed. God expostulates here with a perverse and ungr…

John Gill

John Gill

JohnGill

17th Century
Reformed Baptist
17th Century

Whereas Edom says, We are impoverished
Or the Idumeans, as the Targum; the posterity of Esau, who acknowledge themse…

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry

MatthewHenry

17th Century
Presbyterian
17th Century

All advantages, either as to outward circumstances, or spiritual privileges, come from the free love of God, who makes one differ from another. All…

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