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therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will prepare you to blood, and blood shall pursue you: since you have not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue you.
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A Fitting Judgment
Scholars highlight a powerful wordplay in the original Hebrew. God declares He will make Edom into 'blood' (dom), a play on their name, which means 'red.' This illustrates a key biblical principle: God's judgment is often a direct and fitting consequence of the sin. Because Edom loved bloodshed ('not hated blood'), they themselves would be overcome by it in a form of divine poetic justice.
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19th Century
Anglican
I will prepare you to blood.— Rather, I will make you blood. There is here a play on the name of Edom in the ori…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Therefore, as I live, says the Lord God The form of an oath; the Lord swears by himself, because he could swear by n…
Presbyterian
All who have God against them, have the word of God against them. Those who have a constant hatred for God and his people, as the carnal mind has, …