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,
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.
take up
Ezekiel 32:16,18 This is the lamentation with which they shall lament her: the daughters …
Ezekiel 19:1 Moreover take you up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
Ezekiel 27:2,32 Now, you son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus…
Ezekiel 28:12 Son of man, take up a lamentation on the king of Tyrus, and say to …
Jeremiah 9:18 And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes …
Thou art like
Ezekiel 19:2-6 And say, What is your mother? A lioness: she lay down among lions, …
Ezekiel 38:13 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young …
Genesis 49:9 Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, you are gone up: …
Numbers 24:9 He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who shall …
Proverbs 28:15 As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over …
Jeremiah 4:7 The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles …
Nahum 2:11-13 Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feeding place of the …
and thou art as
Ezekiel 29:3 Speak, and say, Thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against you, …
Psalm 74:13,14 You did divide the sea by your strength: you brake the heads of the …
Isaiah 27:1 In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall …
Isaiah 51:9 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the …
whale. or, dragon
and troubledst
Ezekiel 34:18 Seems it a small thing to you to have eaten up the good pasture, …
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.
Ezekiel 12:13 My net also will I spread on him, and he shall be taken in my snare: …
Ezekiel 17:20 And I will spread my net on him, and he shall be taken in my snare, …
Ecclesiastes 9:12 For man also knows not his time: as the fishes that are taken in …
Jeremiah 16:16 Behold, I will send for many fishers, said the LORD, and they shall …
Lamentations 1:13 From above has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against …
Hosea 7:12 When they shall go, I will spread my net on them; I will bring them …
Habakkuk 1:14-17 And make men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that …
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.
Ezekiel 29:5 And I will leave you thrown into the wilderness, you and all the …
Ezekiel 31:12,13 And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and …
Ezekiel 39:4,5,17-20 You shall fall on the mountains of Israel, you, and all your bands, …
1 Samuel 17:44-46 And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give your …
Psalm 63:10 They shall fall by the sword: they shall be a portion for foxes.
Psalm 74:14 You brake the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gave him to be meat …
Psalm 79:2,3 The dead bodies of your servants have they given to be meat to the …
Psalm 83:9,10 Do to them as to the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the …
Psalm 110:5,6 The Lord at your right hand shall strike through kings in the day …
Isaiah 14:19 But you are cast out of your grave like an abominable branch, and …
Isaiah 18:6 They shall be left together to the fowls of the mountains, and to …
Isaiah 34:2-7 For the indignation of the LORD is on all nations, and his fury on …
Isaiah 66:24 And they shall go forth, and look on the carcasses of the men that …
Jeremiah 8:2 And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all …
Jeremiah 25:33 And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one end of the …
Joel 3:19 Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, …
Revelation 19:17,18 And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud …
And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height.
And I To represent the power, rapaciousness, and cruelty of Pharaoh, he had been compared to a fierce young lion, and also to an immense, overgrown sea-monster, or crocodile; and here it is predicted that God would cast a net over him, by which many companies of people should drag him out of his rivers, and cast him into the open field, mountains, valleys, etc., to be devoured by birds and beasts of prey; that is, his ruin would be complete, and attended with terrible miseries to the Egyptians, and afford a large booty to their enemies.
I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee.
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.
put thee out. or, extinguish thee
Job 18:5,6 Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his …
Proverbs 13:9 The light of the righteous rejoices: but the lamp of the wicked shall …
I will cover the heaven
Destroy the empire
Ezekiel 30:3,18 For the day is near, even the day of the LORD is near, a cloudy day; …
Exodus 10:21-23 And the LORD said to Moses, Stretch out your hand toward heaven, …
Isaiah 13:10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not …
Isaiah 34:4 And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall …
Jeremiah 13:16 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before …
Joel 2:2,31 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick …
Joel 3:15 The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw …
Amos 8:9 And it shall come to pass in that day, said the Lord GOD, that I …
Matthew 24:29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be …
Revelation 6:12,13 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, see, there was …
make
Overwhelm the dependent states.
the sun. the king
the moon. the queen, or some state less than the kingdom
All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD.
bright lights of heaven [heb] lights of the light in heaven
dark [them dark]
set
Involve the whole land in desolation and woe.
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.
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.
amazed
Ezekiel 27:35 All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at you, and …
Deuteronomy 29:24 Even all nations shall say, Why has the LORD done thus to this land? …
1 Kings 9:8 And at this house, which is high, every one that passes by it shall …
my sword
Deuteronomy 32:41 If I whet my glittering sword, and my hand take hold on judgment; …
and they
Ezekiel 26:16 Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, …
Ezekiel 30:9 In that day shall messengers go forth from me in ships to make the …
Exodus 15:14-16 The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the …
Jeremiah 51:9 We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, …
Zechariah 11:2 Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: …
Revelation 18:10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas …
For thus saith the Lord GOD; The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee.
The sword
Ezekiel 28:7 Behold, therefore I will bring strangers on you, the terrible of the nations…
Ezekiel 30:11 He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be …
Ezekiel 31:11 I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of …
Deuteronomy 28:49,50 The LORD shall bring a nation against you from far, from the end …
Habakkuk 1:6,7 For, see, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, …
they shall
Ezekiel 29:19 Therefore thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, I will give the land of …
Isaiah 25:2,3 For you have made of a city an heap; of a defended city a ruin: a …
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.
the terrible
Ezekiel 28:7 Behold, therefore I will bring strangers on you, the terrible of the nations…
Ezekiel 30:11 He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be …
Ezekiel 31:11 I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of …
Deuteronomy 28:49,50 The LORD shall bring a nation against you from far, from the end …
Habakkuk 1:6,7 For, see, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, …
they shall
Ezekiel 29:19 Therefore thus said the Lord GOD; Behold, I will give the land of …
Isaiah 25:2,3 For you have made of a city an heap; of a defended city a ruin: a …
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.
Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord GOD.
and cause The neighbouring countries shall be in a state of quietness, like a river that smoothly glides along, having no longer a political crocodile to foul their waters, or to disturb their peace.
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.
destitute of that whereof. [heb] desolate from the fulness thereof
Ezekiel 29:12,19,20 And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the middle of the countries …
Psalm 24:1 The earth is the LORD's, and the fullness thereof; the world, and …
Psalm 107:34 A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
then
Ezekiel 6:7 And the slain shall fall in the middle of you, and you shall know …
Ezekiel 30:26 And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse …
Exodus 7:5 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I stretch forth …
Exodus 14:4,18 And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, that he shall follow after them; …
Psalm 9:16 The LORD is known by the judgment which he executes: the wicked is …
Psalm 83:17,18 Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yes, let them be put …
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.
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,
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.
wail
Ezekiel 32:2,16 Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and …
Ezekiel 21:6,7 Sigh therefore, you son of man, with the breaking of your loins; …
Isaiah 16:9 Therefore I will mourn with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah: …
Micah 1:8 Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will …
Luke 19:41 And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,
Romans 12:15 Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.
cast That is, predict that they shall be cast down.
Ezekiel 43:3 And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, …
Jeremiah 1:10 See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, …
Hosea 6:5 Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by …
the daughters The cities and colonies of the celebrated nations afterwards enumerated.
unto the
Ezekiel 32:21,24 The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the middle …
Ezekiel 26:20 When I shall bring you down with them that descend into the pit, …
Ezekiel 31:14 To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves …
Psalm 30:9 What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall …
Psalm 63:9 But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower …
Isaiah 14:15 Yet you shall be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised.
dost
Ezekiel 27:3,4 And say to Tyrus, O you that are situate at the entry of the sea, …
Ezekiel 28:12-17 Son of man, take up a lamentation on the king of Tyrus, and say to …
Ezekiel 31:2,18 Son of man, speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude; …
go
Isaiah 14:9-15 Hell from beneath is moved for you to meet you at your coming: it …
with
Ezekiel 32:21,24,29,30 The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the middle …
Ezekiel 28:10 You shall die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: …
1 Samuel 17:26,36 And David spoke to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall …
Jeremiah 9:25,26 Behold, the days come, said the LORD, that I will punish all them …
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.
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.
strong Pharaoh is here represented as descending into the regions of the dead, whither many mighty warriors and potentates had gone before him, who welcome him to their dreary mansion.
Ezekiel 32:27 And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, …
Isaiah 1:31 And the strong shall be as wick, and the maker of it as a spark, …
Isaiah 14:9,10 Hell from beneath is moved for you to meet you at your coming: it …
Luke 16:23,24 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and sees Abraham …
gone
Ezekiel 32:19,24,25 Whom do you pass in beauty? go down, and be you laid with the uncircumcised…
Numbers 16:30-34 But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and …
Psalm 9:17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.
Psalm 55:15 Let death seize on them, and let them go down quick into hell: for …
Proverbs 14:32 The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous has …
Asshur is there and all her company: his graves are about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword:
Ezekiel 32:24,26,29,30 There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of …
Ezekiel 31:3 Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and …
Numbers 24:24 And ships shall come from the coast of Chittim, and shall afflict …
Psalm 83:8-10 Assur also is joined with them: they have helped the children of Lot. Selah…
Assur
Isaiah 30:33 For Tophet is ordained of old; yes, for the king it is prepared; …
Isaiah 37:36-38 Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the …
Nahum 1:7-12 The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knows …
Nahum 3:1 Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey …
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.
graves. The niches in the sides of the subterranean burying places
Ezekiel 26:20 When I shall bring you down with them that descend into the pit, …
Isaiah 14:15 Yet you shall be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
which
Ezekiel 32:24-27,32 There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of …
Ezekiel 26:17,20 And they shall take up a lamentation for you, and say to you, How …
Isaiah 14:16 They that see you shall narrowly look on you, and consider you, saying, …
Isaiah 51:12,13 I, even I, am he that comforts you: who are you, that you should …
terror. or, dismaying
the land
Ezekiel 26:20 When I shall bring you down with them that descend into the pit, …
Job 28:13 Man knows not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.
Psalm 27:13 I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD …
Psalm 116:9 I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.
Psalm 142:5 I cried to you, O LORD: I said, You are my refuge and my portion …
Isaiah 38:11 I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living…
Jeremiah 11:19 But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; …
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.
Elam
Genesis 10:22 The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.
Genesis 14:1 And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch …
1 Chronicles 1:17 The sons of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram, …
Jeremiah 25:25 And all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the …
Jeremiah 49:34-39 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against Elam …
Daniel 8:2 And I saw in a vision; and it came to pass, when I saw, that I was …
which are
Ezekiel 32:18,21 Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, …
Ezekiel 26:20 When I shall bring you down with them that descend into the pit, …
which caused
Ezekiel 32:23 Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is …
borne
Ezekiel 32:25,30 They have set her a bed in the middle of the slain with all her multitude: …
Ezekiel 16:52,54 You also, which have judged your sisters, bear your own shame for …
Ezekiel 34:29 And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be …
Ezekiel 36:6,7,15 Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say to the …
Ezekiel 39:26 After that they have borne their shame, and all their trespasses …
Ezekiel 44:13 And they shall not come near to me, to do the office of a priest …
Jeremiah 3:24,25 For shame has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth; their …
Habakkuk 2:16 You are filled with shame for glory: drink you also, and let your …
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 midst of them that be slain.
set her
Psalm 139:8 If I ascend up into heaven, you are there: if I make my bed in hell, …
Revelation 2:22 Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery …
a bed. A cell, or bier, in the sepulchral vault, in which the corpse was deposited.
all of them
Ezekiel 32:19,21 Whom do you pass in beauty? go down, and be you laid with the uncircumcised…
Ezekiel 44:7,9 In that you have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised …
2 Samuel 1:20 Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest …
1 Chronicles 10:4 Then said Saul to his armor bearer, Draw your sword, and thrust me …
Acts 7:51 You stiff necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you do always …
though
Luke 12:4,5 And I say to you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the …
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.
Meshech. Supposed to be the Moshi, a people between Iberia and Armeia, from whom, probably the Muscovites are descended.
Ezekiel 27:13 Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were your merchants: they traded …
Ezekiel 38:2,3 Son of man, set your face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief …
Ezekiel 39:1 Therefore, you son of man, prophesy against Gog, and say, Thus said …
Genesis 10:2,12 The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and …
1 Chronicles 1:5 The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and …
Tubal Probably the Tibarenainas, a people of Pontus, west of the Moschians.
all of
Ezekiel 32:19,20,24 Whom do you pass in beauty? go down, and be you laid with the uncircumcised…
caused
Ezekiel 32:23,27,32 Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is …
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 living.
shall not
Ezekiel 32:21 The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the middle …
Job 3:13-15 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: …
Isaiah 14:18,19 All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every …
to hell that is, to the grave; and are buried in their armour, with their weapons lying by their sides, as was a very ancient practice in various nations.
their weapons of war [heb] weapons of their war
Isaiah 54:17 No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper; and every tongue …
2 Corinthians 10:4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through …
but
Ezekiel 18:20 The soul that sins, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity …
Job 20:11 His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down …
Psalm 49:14 Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; …
Psalm 92:7,9 When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of …
Psalm 109:18 As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let …
Proverbs 14:32 The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous has …
John 8:24 I said therefore to you, that you shall die in your sins: for if …
Yea, thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shalt lie with them that are slain with the sword.
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.
Edom
Ezekiel 25:1-17 The word of the LORD came again to me, saying…
Ezekiel 35:1-15 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying…
Genesis 25:30 And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray you, with that same red pottage; …
Genesis 36:1 Now these are the generations of Esau, who is Edom.
Isaiah 34:1-17 Come near, you nations, to hear; and listen, you people: let the …
Isaiah 63:1-6 Who is this that comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? …
Jeremiah 49:7-22 Concerning Edom, thus said the LORD of hosts; Is wisdom no more in …
Amos 1:11,12 Thus said the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, …
Obadiah 1:1,2 The vision of Obadiah. Thus said the Lord GOD concerning Edom; We …
Mark 1:3,4 The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare you the way of …
laid [heb] given, or put
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.
the princes. The kings of Media, Armenia, and other nations north of Chaldea, or of the Syrians and others north of Judah, with ` all the Zidonians,' dings of Zidon, Tyre, and other cities of Phoenicia.
Ezekiel 38:6,15 Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, …
Ezekiel 39:2 And I will turn you back, and leave but the sixth part of you, and …
Jeremiah 25:22 And all the kings of Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings …
and bear
Ezekiel 32:24,25 There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of …
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.
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.
