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You boasted against Me with your mouth and multiplied your words against Me. I heard it Myself!
Ezekiel 35:13 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB You have magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard it.
  • KJV Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.
  • NKJV Thus with your mouth you have boasted against Me and multiplied your words against Me; I have heard them.”
  • NASB And you have spoken arrogantly against Me and have multiplied your words against Me; I Myself have heard it.”
  • NLT In saying that, you boasted proudly against me, and I have heard it all!

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Quick answer

Edom magnified itself and multiplied proud words against God, who has heard it all. Arrogant speech against the Lord does not go unanswered.

Overview

Boasting 'against me' shows Edom's hostility was ultimately directed at God, not merely Israel. Their 'multiplied... words' of pride are met with the sobering refrain, 'I have heard it.' God's omniscience makes human boasting futile and self-condemning. Scripture consistently warns that the proud tongue invites God's resistance (Prov. 16:5; James 4:6).

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 22

  • Dan 11:36Then the king will do as he pleases and will exalt and magnify himself above every god, and he will speak monstrous things against the God of gods. He will be successful until the time of wrath is completed, for what has been decreed must be accomplished.
  • 1 Sam 2:3Do not boast so proudly, or let arrogance come from your mouth, for the LORD is a God who knows, and by Him actions are weighed.
  • Jer 29:23For they have committed an outrage in Israel by committing adultery with the wives of their neighbors and speaking lies in My name, which I did not command them to do. I am He who knows, and I am a witness, declares the LORD.”
  • Ezek 35:12Then you will know that I, the LORD, have heard every contemptuous word you uttered against the mountains of Israel when you said, ‘They are desolate; they are given to us to devour!’
  • Isa 36:20Who among all the gods of these lands has delivered his land from my hand? How then can the LORD deliver Jerusalem from my hand?”
  • Eccl 10:14Yet the fool multiplies words. No one knows what is coming, and who can tell him what will come after him?
  • 2 Pet 2:18With lofty but empty words, they appeal to the sensual passions of the flesh and entice those who are just escaping from others who live in error.
  • Isa 37:10“Give this message to Hezekiah king of Judah: ‘Do not let your God, in whom you trust, deceive you by saying that Jerusalem will not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
  • Mal 3:13“Your words against Me have been harsh,” says the LORD. “Yet you ask, ‘What have we spoken against You?’
  • Isa 37:29Because your rage and arrogance against Me have reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bit in your mouth; I will send you back the way you came.’
  • Isa 37:23Whom have you taunted and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!
  • 2 Chr 32:19They spoke against the God of Jerusalem as they had spoken against the gods of the peoples of the earth—the work of human hands.
  • Job 35:16So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”
  • Rev 13:5–6The beast was given a mouth to speak arrogant and blasphemous words, and authority to act for 42 months.
  • 2 Chr 32:15So now, do not let Hezekiah deceive you, and do not let him mislead you like this. Do not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver his people from my hand or from the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you from my hand!”
  • Ps 73:8–9They mock and speak with malice; with arrogance they threaten oppression.
  • Isa 10:13–19For he says: ‘By the strength of my hand I have done this, and by my wisdom, for I am clever. I have removed the boundaries of nations and plundered their treasures; like a mighty one I subdued their rulers.
  • Jude 1:15to execute judgment on everyone, and to convict all the ungodly of every ungodly act of wickedness and every harsh word spoken against Him by ungodly sinners.”
  • Job 34:37For he adds rebellion to his sin; he claps his hands among us and multiplies his words against God.”
  • 2 Kgs 19:28Because your rage and arrogance against Me have reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bit in your mouth; I will send you back the way you came.’
  • Num 14:27“How long will this wicked congregation grumble against Me? I have heard the complaints that the Israelites are making against Me.
  • Exod 16:12“I have heard the grumbling of the Israelites. Tell them, ‘At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God.’”

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