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For my sword has drunk its fill in the sky. Behold, it will come down on Edom, and on the people of my curse, for judgment.
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Verse 5. Heaven. Casting down the rebel angels. Saint Jerome—The resolution to destroy the Idumeans, for their cruelty to the Jews, has been taken long ago. All these expressions allude to the last judgment. Calmet.—Idumea. Under the name of Idumea or Edom, a people that were enemies of God and his Church. Challoner.—Assaradon fell upon Edom two years after Sennacherib’s death. Calmet.—No strong place like Bosra, shall rescue any from destruction at the last day. Worthington.
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