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Ezek.25:1–5. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Son of man, set thy face against the children of Ammon, and the prophets against him, and said unto the sons of Ammon, Hear the word of the Lord Adonai: This saith the Lord Adonai, For thou hast rejoiced over my saints, because they were defiled, and over the land of Israel, because they perished, and over the house of Judah, because they went into captivity, For this reason I give you as sons of Kedemlim as an inheritance, and they will dwell in you with their wealth, and they will build their villages in you: they will eat your fruit, and they will drink your fat. And I will give the city of Ammon to feed the camels, and the children of Ammon to feed the sheep, and you will understand that I am the Lord of God. The word: “sons of Kedemli” was translated by other interpreters as “sons of the east.” They traced their lineage back to Ishmael. Therefore, the God of all through the mouth of the Prophet says to the sons of Ammon: since you rejoiced when you saw that the church dedicated to Me was trampled by unclean and wicked people, the land of Israel was destroyed, the tribe of Judah was taken into captivity, then I will make you subject to a people who are much lower and powerless than the Babylonians. He will burden you with many disasters, setting up tabernacles in your cities, feeding herds of camels in your land, and making you yourselves shepherds of sheep. Therefore, when this happens to you, you will know that, not because of My powerlessness, but because of their iniquity, My people suffered everything that they suffered. Ezek.25:6. For this reason, the Lord says to Adonai: Thou hast clasped thy hand, and thou hast trampled thy foot, and thou hast rejoiced in thy soul over the land of Israel: Ezek.25:7. For this reason I will stretch out My hand against you, and I will give you as a plunder with my tongue, and I will consume you from people, and I will destroy you from the lands with destruction, and hang you, for I am Adonai the Lord, that is, since, having fun and rejoicing in the misfortunes of My people, you applauded, jumped and rejoiced, stamped your feet, then you will suffer the most severe misfortunes for this and in fact you will recognize My sovereignty. After this, God turns the prophecy to Moab, the brother and neighbor of Ammon. Ezek.25:8. This saith Adonai the LORD, even as Moab and Siir spake, behold, as all the nations are, the house of Israel and Judah, Ezek.25:9–11. For this reason I will relax the arm of Moab from its cities, from its extremes, the chosen land, the house of Bethiasimuth, above the source of the seaside city of Baelmon and Kariathaim. I have given the children of Kedemli as an inheritance to the children of Ammon, and I will give it for plunder, so that the memory of the children of Ammon shall not be among the nations. And take vengeance in Moab, and lead them away, for I am the Lord. Because the Edomites not only rejoiced like the Moabites and Ammonites, but also in fact showed their cunning, preserving the ancient enmity; for it is said: “Esau was at enmity with Jacob for a blessing, with which his father blessed him” (Gen. 27:41), then for this he gave them over not to other enemies, but to that very people of My who offended Idumea, so that from complete desolation she would know the power of My dominion. Teman, the city of Idumea, as well as Dedan, the city of the sons of the patriarch Abraham born of Heturah, received their names from those who built these cities: and Dedan was in close proximity and in agreement with Idumea. Thus, having foreshadowed them, he begins to predict about foreign nations, because the Edomites, like the descendants of Isaac, were not foreign, as well as the Ammonites and Moabites, who descended from Lot. The Tyrians and Sidonians, and all other peoples adjacent to them, were foreign. Divine Scripture primarily calls the Ascalonites, Ghazians, Gethites, Akaronites and inhabitants of Azoth foreigners, because their land was adjacent to the tribe of Judah, and they were extremely close and adjacent to each other. Therefore, God says what will happen to them. Ezek.25:15–17. This is what the Lord Adonai says: He has already created the foreigners in vengeance, and has taken vengeance, rejoicing with all his soul, to consume it out of eternal enmity. For this reason says Adonai the Lord: Behold, I will stretch out My hand against the foreigners, and I will consume the Cretans, and I will destroy those who are left living on the seaside, and I will bring great vengeance on them, in the reproof of My wrath, and they will understand that I am Adonai the Lord, when I will inflict My vengeance on them.