13Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yea, thou shouldest not have looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity;
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And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction.
Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:
It may be that the LORD will look on mine affliction, and that the LORD will requite me good for his cursing this day.
I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.
Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the LORD was there:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(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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