Chapter xxxv.
This is another judgment message, which is closely related to the coming
restoration of Israel. When the Lord is merciful to His people and
bestows upon them the promised blessings He will also deal with their
enemies in judgment. Edom was the most bitter enemy of Israel, their
blood-relation. The judgment threatened here was executed upon Edom; but
it has a prophetic meaning of the judgment which is in store for the
enemies of God's people when the times of the Gentiles end and God
arises in behalf of His suffering and persecuted people.