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And you have spoken arrogantly against Me and have multiplied your words against Me; I Myself have heard it.”
Ezekiel 35:13 · New American 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.
  • BSB You boasted against Me with your mouth and multiplied your words against Me. I heard it Myself!
  • NKJV Thus with your mouth you have boasted against Me and multiplied your words against Me; I have heard them.”
  • 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 11:36The king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvelous things against the God of gods; and he shall prosper until the indignation be accomplished; for that which is determined shall be done.
  • 1 Sam 2:3“Don’t keep talking so exceedingly proudly. Don’t let arrogance come out of your mouth, For Yahweh is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.
  • Jer 29:23because they have done foolish things in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and have spoken words in my name falsely, which I didn’t command them. I am he who knows, and am witness,” says Yahweh.
  • Ezek 35:12You shall know that I, Yahweh, have heard all your insults which you have spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they have been given us to devour.
  • Isa 36:20Who are they among all the gods of these countries that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’”
  • Eccl 10:14A fool also multiplies words. Man doesn’t know what will be; and that which will be after him, who can tell him?
  • 2 Pet 2:18For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;
  • Isa 37:10“Thus you shall speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, ‘Don’t let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, “Jerusalem won’t be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”
  • Mal 3:13“Your words have been stout against me,” says Yahweh. “Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken against you?’
  • Isa 37:29Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore will I put my hook in your nose and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.
  • Isa 37:23Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.
  • 2 Chr 32:19They spoke of the God of Jerusalem as of the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of men’s hands.
  • Job 35:16Therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge.”
  • Rev 13:5–6A mouth speaking great things and blasphemy was given to him. Authority to make war for forty-two months was given to him.
  • 2 Chr 32:15Now therefore don’t let Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you in this way. Don’t believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you out of my hand?”
  • Ps 73:8–9They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.
  • Isa 10:13–19For he has said, “By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I have understanding: and I have removed the boundaries of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures. Like a valiant man I have brought down their rulers.
  • Jude 1:15to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
  • 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 of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.’
  • Num 14:27“How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, that murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.
  • Exod 16:12“I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel. Speak to them, saying, ‘At evening you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread: and you shall know that I am Yahweh your God.’”

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