11In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them.
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Matthew Henry
(vv. 10-16)When we have read Edom’s doom, no less than utter ruin, it is natural to ask, Why, what evil has he done ? What is the ground of God’s controversy with him? Many things, no doubt, were amiss in Edom; they were a sinful people, and a people laden with iniquity . But that one single crime which is laid to their charge, as filling their measure and bringing this ruin upon them, that for which they he...
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