Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 36:3

3 Therefore prophesie and say; thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they have made you desolate , and swallowed you up on every side , that ye might be a possession t[illegible: 1 letter] the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people.

Edomites, and others with them.

First broken your strength, wasted your Cities, and burn[illegible: 1 letter] the Temple, and way lay'd you to cut off them that were escaped at last.

Devoured you, as hungry Beasts devour the prey.

From all coasts of the land through the whole.

That such of the heathen, who remain'd here, might have what they no where else could have, being the scum and worst of men, an inheritance, and possession, so unnatural was Edom, that cast out his own kindred, to bring in the vilest of men, and the most barbarous strangers.

You are th[illegible: 1 letter] subject, on which wild, and foul mouths discourse, which is explain'd

In that the people ever talk'd of them with reproach, and branding them as infamous, this was foretold to Israel, Ier. 24.9. and they were advised to prevent it.

Marginal references: Heb. because [illegible: 1 word] because.; Or, ye are made [illegible: 1 word] come upon the [illegible: 1 word] of the tongue.