Ezekiel 32:9

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 SHALL BRING THY DESTRUCTION AMONG THE NATIONS - i:e., when I shall bring the tidings of thy destruction (literally, thy breakage), carried by captive and dispersed Egyptians "among the nations" (Grotius); or, 'when I bring thy ruins among the nations:' thy broken people, resembling one great fracture, the ruins of what they had been (Fairbairn)....

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 world, will wonder at the ruin of that pomp; which to those who know the vanity of all things here below, is no surprise. When others are ruined by sin, we have to fear, knowing ourselves guilty. The instruments of the desolation are formidable. And the instances of the desolation are frightful. The waters of Egypt shall run like oil, which signifies there should be universal sadness and heaviness upon the whole nation. God can soon empty those of this world's goods who have the greatest fulness of them. By enlarging the matters of our joy, we increase the occasions of our sorrow. How weak and helpless, as to God, are the most powerful of mankind! The destruction of Egypt was a type of the d...

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 fall of Pharaoh represents the fall of the world-power before the sovereignty of God....

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 Ezekiel 32:17, belong to the same year, and probably, though the date of the month is net given for the second, were written within a fortnight of each other. The thoughts of the prophet still dwell upon the downfall of Egypt, and he is stirred, as by a special inspiration, to write an elaborate "lamentation" over its departed greatness. It would seem, from the repetition of the word in Ezekiel 32:16, as if th

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; the news of it, the tidings of their destruction; which by one means or another should come to their ears, and fill them with concern and great anxiety of mind, so rich and powerful a kingdom being subdued, and the king of Babylon made so great thereby, and fearing they fall a prey unto him also. The Targum renders it, "when I shall bring the broken of thy war;'' that is, the soldiers that should be wounded in battle, their limbs broke, and they taken captive, and brought among the nations, dismal spectacles to look at; and which should be brought INTO COUNTRIES, WHICH THOU HAST NOT KNOWN; at a distance from Egypt, and which had no commerce nor communication with them, nor were their frien...

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 under the picture of a tree follows in Ezekiel 31:10. The overthrow of Egypt and the resulting consternation among the nations is predicted in the last section of this chapter (Ezekiel 31:15). Ezekiel 32:1. The lamentation over Pharaoh is contained in Ezekiel 3

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 dripping carcase over mountain and valley, to be devoured by beasts and birds. Pharaoh, the brilliant luminary (the figure changes here), shall be extinguished; and other nations, when they behold Egypt's fate, shall tremble at the thought that the like may happen to themselves. All this means in plain terms (Ezekiel 32:11) that Egypt will be devastated by the king of Babylon. (Ezekiel 32:2. The opening words of the dirge are obscure: either thou didst liken thyself to a young lion, etc., but art only a river monster; or a

_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 destruction among_ Hardly means "bring the news" of thy destruction; the destruction itself occurs among the nations, they observe it; cf. "brandish my sword before them," Ezekiel 32:10. _into the countries_ UNTO COUNTRIES. The effect of Pharaoh's fall shall be felt by nations lying beyond the horizon of his knowledge; cf. Isaiah 55:5....

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....