Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ezekiel 32:9
Thy destruction — The fame of it. Not known — Such as were strangers to Egypt, shall be troubled with apprehension of what mischief may come upon the world from so mighty a conqueror.
Thy destruction — The fame of it. Not known — Such as were strangers to Egypt, shall be troubled with apprehension of what mischief may come upon the world from so mighty a conqueror.
Verse Ezekiel 32:9. _I WILL ALSO VEX THE HEARTS_] Even the remote nations, who had no connexion with thee, shall be amazed at the judgments which have fallen upon thee....
WHEN I SHALL BRING THY DESTRUCTION - i. e., the news of thy destruction. The phenomena here mentioned are the accompaniments of “the day of the Lord” Joel 2:10; Luke 21:25 or the day of judgment. The...
Ezekiel 31:1. Pharaoh's greatness is described in the first part of the chapter (Ezekiel 31:1). He is compared to the Assyrian, once so powerful and proud. The fall and desolation of the proud monarch...
THE DIRGE OVER PHARAOH. A dirge is now sung over Pharaoh, in which he is likened, as before (Ezekiel 29:3), to a crocodile brutal and turbulent; but Yahweh will catch him in His net, and hurl his huge...
_vex the hearts_ Or, TROUBLE. The precise feeling is not grief, and certainly not anger (A. V. marg.); in Ezekiel 32:10 it is dismay, and then terror for themselves. For people PEOPLES. _bring thy des...
I WILL ALSO VEX, &C.— _I will also cause the hearts of many people to quake concerning thee, when I shall bring thy captives among the nations,_ &c. Houbigant....
VI. DIRGE OVER PHARAOH 32:1-16 TRANSLATION (1) 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, (2) Son of...
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. I WILL ALSO VEX THE HEARTS OF MANY PEOPLE, WHEN I SHAL...
TWO LAMENTATIONS FOR PHARAOH AND EGYPT This chapter consists of two prophecies, both dated more than a year and a half after the capture of Jerusalem, and separated from each other by a fortnight. In...
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 32 A FUNERAL SONG FOR EGYPT – EZEKIEL 32:1-16 V1 God
VEX THE HEARTS. — The margin, _provoke to grief,_ is better, as being less ambiguous. “Thy destruction_”_ means, _the news of thy destruction._ As is more fully expressed in the following verse, the f...
וְ הִ֨כְעַסְתִּ֔י לֵ֖ב עַמִּ֣ים רַבִּ֑ים בַּ...
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
The sixth prophecy followed the fifth after an interval of nearly two years, but was closely associated with it, in that it consisted of a lamentation for Pharaoh whose doom was first described as the...
_Anger, as they will not know why I have treated thee so severely: or rather, they shall be afraid for themselves, ver. 10. (Calmet)_...
I cannot but believe, though the thing is not plainly revealed, that the Lord hath in this place a spiritual meaning, and which is principally intended by these scriptures. Surely Ezekiel ministry wou...
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...
I WILL ALSO VEX THE HEARTS OF MANY PEOPLE,.... With anger and grief, with fear and dread, with consternation and amazement: WHEN I SHALL BRING THY DESTRUCTION AMONG THE NATIONS; or, "thy breach" b; t...
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...
_And when I shall put thee out_ When I shall cast thee down from thy power, and extinguish all thy glory. _I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark_ It is well known that the downfall...
LAMENT OVER THE KING OF EGYPT...
I will also vex the hearts of many people, filling them with extreme fear and terror, their sympathy with fallen Egypt taking this form, WHEN I SHALL BRING THY DESTRUCTION AMONG THE NATIONS, when the...
VEX: _ Heb._ provoke to anger, or grief...
1-16 It becomes us to weep and tremble for those who will not weep and tremble for themselves. Great oppressors are, in God's account, no better than beasts of prey. Those who admire the pomp of this...
VEX; it speaks a passion mixed and made up with grief for what is done, fear of the consequence of it, anger against him that did it, and an astonishment at the report, and it seizeth the heart and sp...
Ezekiel 32:9 trouble H3707 (H8689) hearts H3820 many H7227 peoples H5971 bring H935 (H8687) destruction H7667 nations
THE SIXTH ORACLE. A LAMENT OVER PHARAOH AND EGYPT (EZEKIEL 32:1). The date of the oracle is March 585 BC. It follows the destruction of Jerusalem. The versions vary, seeking to alter the date to befor...
“I will also vex the hearts of many peoples, when I bring your destruction (LXX ‘carry you captive') among the nations, to the countries which you have not known. Yes, I will make many peoples astonis...
CONTENTS: Lamentation for Pharaoh and Egypt. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel, Pharaoh, Nebuchadrezzar. CONCLUSION: Great potentates, if they be tyrannical and oppressive, are in God's account no better than...
Ezekiel 32:2 _. _ _Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh,_ compose a funeral elegy for Egypt. Send out thy letters to Egypt as Jeremiah wrote to Babylon, and give them a space for repentance....
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 32:1 This oracle repeats the call to “lament” (vv. Ezekiel 32:2, Ezekiel 32:16). The poe
PROPHETIC DIRGES OVER EGYPT’S FALL (Chap. 32) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 32:1. “IN THE TWELFTH YEAR”—in the twelfth year from the carrying away of Jehoiakin: Jerusalem was by this time overthrown, an...
EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 32:1 IN THE TWELFTH YEAR, etc. March, B.C. 584, nineteen months attar the destruction of Jerusalem. The two sections of the chapter, Ezekiel 32:1 and Ezeki
Now in chapter 32, because this is his sad destiny, he takes up this lamentation. A lamentation is a wailing or a crying for the Pharaoh. You lament, or you wail. And it came to pass in the twelfth y...
Ezekiel 29:12; Ezekiel 30:23; Ezekiel 30:26; Jeremiah 25:15;...