Bible Strands
Ezekiel 35:13
You boasted against Me with your mouth and multiplied your words against Me. I heard it Myself!
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The Lord addresses Edom during a prophetic declaration of judgment, responding directly to their contemptuous claims about possessing Israel’s desolate lands.
The words — תַּגְדִּילוּ (tag.dî.lû) translates to “you have magnified yourselves,” and הַעְתַּרְתֶּם (ha'.tar.tem) means “you have multiplied,” both describing Edom’s verbal expansion against God.
The thread — This pattern of arrogant speech against God appears in Daniel 11:36, 1 Samuel 2:3, and Isaiah 36:20, where prideful boasts are consistently met with divine scrutiny.
Why it lands — The text demands recognition that God personally hears every arrogant claim and will act accordingly, requiring readers to abandon self-exaltation and submit to divine judgment.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.
Cross-references
- Daniel 11:36 Then 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 Samuel 2:3 Do 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.
- Isaiah 36:20 Who among all the gods of these lands has delivered his land from my hand? How then can the LORD deliver Jerusalem from my hand?”
- Jeremiah 29:23 For 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.”
- Ezekiel 35:12 Then 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!’
- Numbers 14:27 “How long will this wicked congregation grumble against Me? I have heard the complaints that the Israelites are making against Me.
- 2 Kings 19:28 Because 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.’
- 2 Chronicles 32:15 So 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!”
- 2 Chronicles 32:19 They 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 34:37 For he adds rebellion to his sin; he claps his hands among us and multiplies his words against God.”