Ezekiel 35:12-13

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.

Thou shalt know ... that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against ... Israel. Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me. God regards what is done against His people as done against Himself (; ; Acts 9:4, "Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord ... Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou ME? ... I am Jesus whom thou persecutest"). 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 (; ).