Ezekiel 35 · Verse 13

Ezekiel 35:13

Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.
Ezekiel 35:13, King James Version

Ezekiel 35:13 in other translations

BSBYou boasted against Me with your mouth and multiplied your words against Me. I heard it Myself!
WEBYou have magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and have multiplied your words against me. I have heard it.”
ASVAnd ye have magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard it.
YLTAnd ye magnify yourselves against Me with your mouth, And have made abundant against Me your words, I--I have heard.
DARBYAnd ye have magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.
BBEAnd you have made yourselves great against me with your mouths, increasing your words against me; and it has come to my ears.
WebsterThus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.

What does Ezekiel 35:13 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ezekiel 35:12-13

12-13. blasphemies ... against ... Israel ... against me--God regards what is done against His people as done against Himself (Mt 25:45; Ac 9:2, 4, 5). Edom implied, if he did not express it, in his taunts against Israel, that God had not sufficient power to protect His people. A type of the spirit of all the foes of God and His people (1Sa 2:3; Re 13:6).

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 13 Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me - Ye have said you would enter into those lands, and take them for your inheritance; though ye knew that God had promised them to the Israelites, and that you should never have them for your portion.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Ezekiel 35:10-15

When we see the vanity of the world in the disappointments, losses, and crosses, which others meet with, instead of showing ourselves greedy of worldly things, we should sit more loose to them. In the multitude of words, not one is unknown to God; not the most idle word; and the most daring is not above his rebuke. In the destruction of the enemies of the church, God designs his own glory; and we may be sure that he…

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Ezekiel 35:13 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַתַּגְדִּ֤ילוּva.tag.Di.luand you have magnified yourselvesH1431
עָלַי֙'a.Laion meH5921
בְּפִיכֶ֔םbe.fi.Khemwith mouth yourH6310
וְהַעְתַּרְתֶּ֥םve.ha'.tar.Temand you have multipliedH6280
עָלַ֖י'a.Laion meH5921
דִּבְרֵיכֶ֑םdiv.rei.Khemwords yourH1697
אֲנִ֖י'a.NiIH589
שָׁמָֽעְתִּי\׃\ \סsha.Ma.'e.tiI have heardH8085

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Ezekiel 35:13

  • Daniel 11:36

    And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done.

  • Jeremiah 29:23

    Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours’ wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and am a witness, saith the Lord.

  • Ezekiel 35:12

    And thou shalt know that I am the Lord, and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.

  • 1 Samuel 2:3

    Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.

  • Isaiah 36:20

    Who are they among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my hand, that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?

  • Isaiah 10:13-19

    For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man: And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped. Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood. Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire. …

  • Job 35:16

    Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.

  • Job 34:37

    For he addeth rebellion unto his sin, he clappeth his hands among us, and multiplieth his words against God.

  • 2 Peter 2:18

    For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.

  • Revelation 13:5-6

    And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months. And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.

  • Isaiah 37:10

    Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.

  • Ecclesiastes 10:14

    A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him?

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
with.
1Sa 2:3; 2Ch 32:15,19; Isa 10:13-19; 36:20; 37:10,23,29; Da 11:36
Mal 3:13; 2Pe 2:18; Jude 1:15; Re 13:5,6
boasted. Heb. magnified. have multiplied.
Job 34:37; 35:16; Ps 73:8,9; Ec 10:14; *marg:
I have.
12; Ex 16:12; Nu 14:27; 2Ki 19:28; Jer 29:23

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Context

  • Ezekiel 35:12

    And thou shalt know that I am the Lord, and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.

  • Ezekiel 35:13

    Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.

  • Ezekiel 35:14

    Thus saith the Lord God; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate.

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Ezekiel 35:13 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y os engrandecisteis contra mí con vuestra boca, y multiplicasteis contra mí vuestras palabras. Yo lo oí.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et vous vous êtes, de votre bouche, élevés contre moi, et vous avez multiplié contre moi vos paroles; moi, je l’ai entendu.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und ihr habt mit eurem Munde gegen mich großgetan und eure Worte gegen mich gehäuft; ich habe es gehört. -
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Et insurrexistis super me ore vestro, et derogastis adversum me verba vestra: ego audivi.