Ezekiel 35:5

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:

Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred - (; ; Obadiah 1:10). Edom perpetuated the hereditary hatred derived from Esau against Jacob.

Shed the blood of ... The literal translation is better, 'thou hast poured out the children of Israel,' namely, like water. So ; , margin; ; Hebrew, 'pour them out by the force of the sword.' Cf .

By the force of the sword - literally, "by" or 'upon the hands of the sword;' the sword being personified as a devourer whose 'hands' were the instruments of destruction.

In the time that their iniquity had an end - i:e., had its consummation (; ). Edom consummated his guilt when he exulted over Jerusalem's downfall, and helped the foe to destroy it (; ).