Charles Ellicott Commentary Ezekiel 35:5

"Because thou hast had a perpetual enmity, and hast given over the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end;" — Ezekiel 35:5 (ASV)

Perpetual hatred.— Enmity towards Israel is also imputed to the Ammonites, Moabites, and Philistines in Ezekiel 25; but that of Edom was deeper and as old as its first ancestor (see Genesis 25:22 and following, Genesis 27:41); its peculiar malignity is noticed by Amos 1:11. (Compare also Obadiah 1:10-15.)

Shed the blood.—“Blood” is not in the original and should be omitted. The verb literally means to pour out, and the clause should be rendered you have scattered the children of Israel. This same expression occurs in Psalm 63:10 and Jeremiah 18:21.

The time specifically referred to is that of the overthrow of Jerusalem, as both that of their great calamity and that when their iniquity had an end. (On the last phrase, see Note on Ezekiel 21:29.) So the world-power generally, while it may fawn upon and corrupt the Church in the day of its prosperity, shows its undisguised hostility in every time of adversity.