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This set of detailed commentaries provides valuable exegetical, historical, cultural, and linguistic information on the original text. Over the years this series has been instrumental in shedding light on the Scriptures so that translators all over the world could complete the important task of putting God's Word into the many languages spoken in the world today. Over the years church leaders...

This verse continues the theme of the Lord’s people regaining the land which had been taken from them after fall of Jerusalem, especially the land taken by the Edomites. Verse 17 states the basic fact that the people of Israel will regain their lost territory, and verses 18–20 give the details of how this will happen. Appropriately, the details begin with the Edomites, the people this book has been mostly concerned with. In Hebrew, the verse opens with two lines which are parallel in
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