Ezekiel 35:5
Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end: Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:
The verse is part of a prophecy against Seir, which is Edom. It belongs to prophecies concerning the kingdoms on every side of Israel, given during twenty-two years of pleading with Israel to turn to God to show how God has dealt with those kingdoms and how He brings down and will bring down their pride. It stands in Ezekiel 35 to 37, within the second half of Ezekiel, chapters 33 to 48, which give consolation and promise of restoration, and the three chapters together present the hope of the resurrection.
The verse shows that the descendants of Esau, Amalek and Edom, kept Esau's old hatred against the children of Israel in their hearts as a perpetual hatred. That perpetual hatred meant Satan-instigated attempts by the sword to blot the posterity of Jacob from the earth, beginning with seizing those who lagged behind after Israel camped. It reached a supreme later attempt through Haman the Agagite in the days of Esther to blot out Israel. Because of that ongoing hatred the Lord decreed to utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven, so Amalek was destroyed from under heaven.
The chapter containing the verse is appealed to to teach the return of the Jews, the reign of Christ, and the inheritance of the saints on earth. But that earthly scheme is overthrown because at the second coming of Christ the saints are taken to heaven while the earth is left desolate. This leaves no place for a special earthly work among the Jews in the Christian dispensation.