George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Ezekiel 29:7
Loins. They fell upon thee, and thou didst wound (Calmet) or "dissolve" their loins. (Haydock)
Loins. They fell upon thee, and thou didst wound (Calmet) or "dissolve" their loins. (Haydock)
So Egypt was continually proving to Israel, to Jehoiakim and to Zedekiah. The tenses are present not past. TO BE AT A STAND - Others, “to totter.”...
Ezekiel 29-30. First Egypt's desolation is announced (Ezekiel 29:1). The king of Egypt addressed in this prophecy was Pharaoh-Hophra, called in Greek, Apries. He was the grandson of Pharaoh-Necho, who...
EZEKIEL 29-32. ORACLE AGAINST EGYPT. Next and last to be denounced is Egypt, the great rival of Babylon, and consequently the opponent of Yahweh's purpose. The separate oracles were written either not...
TO BE AT. STAND. to come to. stand, or to halt. Ginsburg thinks, to shake" (Isa 69:2)....
WHEN THEY TOOK HOLD OF THEE, &C.— _For when they took hold of thee, thou wast broken in their hand, and didst rend the hand of each of them. When they leaned upon thee thou breakest, and didst loose_...
CHAPTER FOURTEEN THE ECLIPSE OF EGYPT 29:1-32:32 In the four Chapter s devoted to Egypt Ezekiel speaks seven words from the Lord. All but one of these words are given specific dating. Why such a larg...
II. THE PRIZE OF EGYPT 29:7-21 TRANSLATION (17) And it came to pass in the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, in the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, (18) Son...
When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand. WHEN THEY TOOK HO...
29:7 tremble. (a-35) Or 'didst bring to a stand-still.'...
§ 3. EGYPT (EZEKIEL 29-32) The most of this series of prophecies against Egypt are connected with dates during the siege of Jerusalem, the time when Ezekiel was silent as a prophet of Israel. They wer...
THE DESTRUCTION OF THE CROCODILE Pharaoh is compared to the crocodile of the Nile. God will drag him forth with hooks, and cast him, with the fish that stick to his scales, into the wilderness, as a p...
EZEKIEL: “THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM GOD” GOD’S PLANS FOR *ISRAEL AND THE NATIONS EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 25 TO 39 _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 29 *PROPHECY AGAINST EGYPT – EZEKIEL 29:1-16 V1 It w
ALL THEIR LOINS TO BE AT A STAND. — The expression is a difficult one, but the more probable sense is, _all their loins to shake._ The reed breaks under the weight of the man who leans upon it, and pi...
בְּ תָפְשָׂ֨ם בְּךָ֤ _בַ_†__†_כַּף֙_† תֵּרֹ֔וץ...
EGYPT Ezekiel 29:1; Ezekiel 30:1; Ezekiel 31:1; Ezekiel 32:1 EGYPT figures in the prophecies of Ezekiel as a great world-power
Ezekiel then uttered the doom of one. Egypt had been the principal foe of the people of God, and against her were uttered seven prophecies, which are placed here in an order of purpose rather than in...
When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and tear all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou didst break, and make all their inward parts to (e) shake. (e) When you fe...
Here are sad things to be done for the humbling of Egypt, and which God will certainly accomplish. But what I particularly beg the Reader to observe, because it is indeed the general cause the Lord as...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 29, 30, 31, AND 32. Chapter s 29-32 contain the judgment of Egypt. Egypt sought, in the self-will of man, to take the place which God had in fact given to Neb...
WHEN THEY TOOK HOLD OF THEE BY THY HAND,.... When the Israelites entered into an alliance and confederacy with the Egyptians, called for their assistance according to treaty, and put their confidence...
When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand. Ver. 7. _When they t...
_Because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel _ This expression, _a staff of reed_, is very emphatical, to signify a confidence which has failed those that depended upon it, or has do...
When they took hold of thee by thy hand, in seeking the assistance of Egypt, THOU DIDST BREAK AND REND ALL THEIR SHOULDER, the broken pieces of the staff piercing through the hand and arm, up even to...
THE DESTRUCTION OF PHARAOH'S POWER AND THE SUBSEQUENT RESTORATION OF EGYPT...
1-16 Worldly, carnal minds pride themselves in their property, forgetting that whatever we have, we received it from God, and should use it for God. Why, then, do we boast? Self is the great idol whi...
WHEN THEY, the Jews, unable to stand on their own legs, as men ready to fall, took hold of thee by thy hand; caught thine hand to lean on, as when besieged by the Chaldeans. THOU DIDST BREAK: it inclu...
Ezekiel 29:7 hold H8610 (H8800) hand H3709 broke H7533 (H8735) tore H1234 (H8804) shoulders H3802 leaned...
THE ORACLES AGAINST EGYPT (EZEKIEL 29:1 TO EZEKIEL 32:32). This section of the book is composed of seven oracles issued against Egypt. The fact that there are seven is probably deliberate in order to...
“And the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I am Yahweh, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel. When they took hold of you by the hand, you broke and badly tore their shoulder...
THE FIRST ORACLE AGAINST EGYPT (EZEKIEL 29:1). In this oracle Egypt is likened to a monster crocodile which Yahweh will hunt and dispose of (2-5), because of Pharaoh's pretensions (Ezekiel 29:3), and...
CONTENTS: Prophecy against Egypt. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel, Pharaoh, Nebuchadnezzar. CONCLUSION: Those who abuse their power will justly be stripped of it. Those who pride themselves in prosperity,...
Ezekiel 29:2. _Set thy face against Pharaoh._ Against the dragon, the alligator, for the Nile once had alligators. The figurative language here is very majestic, and calculated to impress the Egyptian...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 29:1 The seventh and last of the nations addressed, Egypt (like Tyre) receives seven oracles. If the chief interest in Tyre was economic, the leading issue for Egypt is militar...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 29:6 The second accusation against Egypt is given in the BECAUSE... THEREFORE form seen often in Ezekiel. A river-related metaphor appears again. This time, however, Egypt is t...
THE FIRST OF FOUR Chapter S DIRECTED AGAINST EGYPT (Chap. 29) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—“Pharaoh, a monarch with whom the Hebrews were frequently in contact, is represented as vaunting in the security of his...
EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 29:1 IN THE TENTH YEAR, etc. The precision with which the dates of the several portions of the prophecy against Egypt are given, here and in Ezekiel 29:17; Ez
Now as we get into chapter 29: In the tenth year (Ezekiel 29:1), That would be the year 587 B.C. And in the tenth month, the twelfth day of the month (Ezekiel 29:1), This prophecy came to Ezekiel...
Ezekiel 17:15; Jeremiah 17:5; Jeremiah 17:6; Jeremiah 37:5;...
Rent — Didst them much mischief instead of benefiting them, as thou hast promised, Jeremiah 37:7....