fire of my jealousy "Jealousy" is injured self-consciousness; it is the reaction of Jehovah's sense of himself against the injurious conduct of Edom and the nations in relation to him or that which is his, cf. myland.

to cast it out The expression is difficult both in grammar (as Ezekiel 17:9) and meaning. To take "cast it (the land) out" in the sense of cast out the inhabitants is not quite natural, though cf. Ezekiel 24:6. The reading may be faulty.

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