And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first [day] of the month, [that] the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Ver. 1. _In the twelfth month._] About a year and a half after the city was taken.... [ Continue Reading ]
Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou [art] as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers. Ver. 2. _Take up a lamentation,... [ Continue Reading ]
Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will therefore spread out my net over thee with a company of many people; and they shall bring thee up in my net. Ver. 3. _I will therefore spread out my net._] Thou shalt be taken in an evil net, when thou little thinkest of it: "Evil shall hunt the violent man, to overt... [ Continue Reading ]
Then will I leave thee upon the land, I will cast thee forth upon the open field, and will cause all the fowls of the heaven to remain upon thee, and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with thee. Ver. 4. _Then will I leave thee upon the land._] As whales are sometimes left by an ebb, while t... [ Continue Reading ]
And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height. Ver. 5. _With thy height._] _Celsitudine tua; _ _a_ with thy glory, which thou holdest dearer than thy flesh or life. _ a_ Oecolamp.... [ Continue Reading ]
I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest, [even] to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee. Ver. 6. _I will also water with thy blood._] Instead of thy river Nile. _ The land wherein thou swimmest._] Egypt, where thou sportest, as the whale doth in the mighty wa... [ Continue Reading ]
And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light. Ver. 7. _And when I shall put thee out._] Or, Extinguish thee, who art for thy power and glory as one of the world's great luminaries.... [ Continue Reading ]
All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD. Ver. 8. _All the bright lights of heaven._] See Ezekiel 32:7. All this shall befall the world really and without a hyperbole at the last day Mat 24:29 “ _Impiaque aeternam patientur saec... [ Continue Reading ]
I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not known. Ver. 9. _I will also vex._] Or, Grieve. See Ecclesiastes 7:3, where the same word signifieth anger and sorrow. Nebuchadnezzar's growing greatness shall be a... [ Continue Reading ]
Yea, I will make many people amazed at thee, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for thee, when I shall brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble at [every] moment, every man for his own life, in the day of thy fall. Ver. 10. _When I shall brandish my sword._] As fetching my blow a... [ Continue Reading ]
_For thus saith the Lord GOD; The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee._ Ver. 11. _The sword of the King of Babylon._] Here is that delivered plainly which was before parabolically.... [ Continue Reading ]
By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall, the terrible of the nations, all of them: and they shall spoil the pomp of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed. Ver. 12. _By the swords of the mighty._] Or, Of the heroes, or giants. _ The terrible of the nations._... [ Continue Reading ]
I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside the great waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them. Ver. 13. _All the beasts thereof._] Egypt, a most moist and fat country, was full of cattle.... [ Continue Reading ]
Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord GOD. Ver. 14. _Then will I make their waters deep._] There shall not be men left to drive them by ditches and channels into their grounds and pastures, for the making of them fruitful. _ And cause their rive... [ Continue Reading ]
_When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate, and the country shall be destitute of that whereof it was full, when I shall smite all them that dwell therein, then shall they know that I [am] the LORD._ Ver. 15. When I shall make the land … desolate.] See here the sad effects of sin, and beware. _... [ Continue Reading ]
This [is] the lamentation wherewith they shall lament her: the daughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall lament for her, [even] for Egypt, and for all her multitude, saith the Lord GOD. Ver. 16. _This is the lamentation._] And this is the epilogue of this former prophecy; the latter fol... [ Continue Reading ]
It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth [day] of the month, [that] the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Ver. 17. _In the fifteenth day of the month,_] _i.e., _ Of the twelfth month, Eze 32:1 and about a fortnight after the former prophecy. God loves to foretell, and to do i... [ Continue Reading ]
Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, [even] her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit. Ver. 18. _Wail for the multitude._] Prophesy their destruction, but do it not without grief and regret. _ C... [ Continue Reading ]
Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised. Ver. 19. _Whom dost thou pass in beauty?_] What art thou better than other thy compeers and complices in sin? Thou must also dance down to hell down to hell, with the rest. _ Be thou laid with the uncircumcised._] Str... [ Continue Reading ]
They shall fall in the midst of [them that are] slain by the sword: she is delivered to the sword: draw her and all her multitudes. Ver. 20. _They shall fall._] Carcases have their names both in Greek and Latin from falling. _a_ “ _Fit subito funus, qui modo virus erat._ ” We wonder now and then... [ Continue Reading ]
The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword. Ver. 21. _The strong among the mighty._] Who might have seen many fair summers, had they not been cut off by Pharaoh's sword. _ Shall spe... [ Continue Reading ]
Asshur [is] there and all her company: his graves [are] about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword: Ver. 22. _Ashur is there._] To wit, in the belly of hell, among the uncircumcised, as Lazarus and other saints are in the bosom of Abraham, the place of bliss. Slain they were with the sword;... [ Continue Reading ]
Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living. Ver. 23. _Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit._] In the bottom of the burning lake, which from the high top of a ki... [ Continue Reading ]
There [is] Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused their terror in the land of the living; yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit. Ver. 24.... [ Continue Reading ]
They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude: her graves [are] round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword: though their terror was caused in the land of the living, yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit: he is put in the mid... [ Continue Reading ]
There [is] Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her graves [are] round about him: all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword, though they caused their terror in the land of the living. Ver. 26. _There is Meshech and Tubal,_] _i.e., _ Say some, the Cappadocians and Spaniards; others, the Scythi... [ Continue Reading ]
And they shall not lie with the mighty [that are] fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though [they were] the terror of the mighty in the land of the livi... [ Continue Reading ]
Yea, thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shalt lie with [them that are] slain with the sword. Ver. 28. _Yea, thou shalt be broken._] Thou, O Pharaoh, shalt have a deeper degree of torment in hell. _Potentes potenter torquebuntur._... [ Continue Reading ]
_There [is] Edom, her kings, and all her princes, which with their might are laid by [them that were] slain by the sword: they shall lie with the uncircumcised, and with them that go down to the pit._ Ver. 29. _They shall lie with the uncircumcised._] Though they were circumcised, as now the Turks... [ Continue Reading ]
There [be] the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, which are gone down with the slain; with their terror they are ashamed of their might; and they lie uncircumcised with [them that be] slain by the sword, and bear their shame with them that go down to the pit. Ver. 30. _There... [ Continue Reading ]
_Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his multitude, [even] Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword, saith the Lord GOD._ Ver. 31. _Pharaoh shall see them._] This is the epilogue or preclose of this doleful ditty. _ And shall be comforted._] This was a miserable comfort, the... [ Continue Reading ]
For I have caused my terror in the land of the living: and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with [them that are] slain with the sword, [even] Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD. Ver. 32. _For I have caused my terror._] By Pharaoh's exemplary punishment. This will ma... [ Continue Reading ]