Ezequiel 29:8

8 "Por tanto, así dice el Señor DIOS: 'He aquí, traeré contra ti la espada, y cortaré de ti hombres y animales.

Ezequiel 29:8 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 29:8

Therefore thus saith the Lord God
Because of the pride of the king of Egypt, asserting the river to be his own, and made by him for himself; and because of his perfidy to the house of Israel: behold, I will bring a sword upon thee;
or those that kill with the sword, as the Targum; first a cival war, occasioned by the murmurs of the people, on account of the defeat of their army at Cyrene; which issued in the dethroning and strangling of this king, as before observed and setting up another; which cival commotions Nebuchadnezzar took the advantage of, and came against Egypt with a large army: and cut off man and beast out of thee;
for what with the civil wars among themselves, and what with the devastations of the king of Babylon's army, putting men to the sword, and seizing upon the beasts for their food, to support such an army in a foreign land, it was pretty well stripped of both.

Ezequiel 29:8 In-Context

6 'Entonces sabrán todos los habitantes de Egipto que yo soy el SEÑOR, porque han sido sólo vara de caña para la casa de Israel.
7 'Cuando te tomaron en la mano, te quebraste, y desgarraste todas sus manos; y cuando se apoyaron en ti, te quebraste y les hiciste estremecer todos sus lomos.'
8 "Por tanto, así dice el Señor DIOS: 'He aquí, traeré contra ti la espada, y cortaré de ti hombres y animales.
9 'Y la tierra de Egipto se convertirá en desolación y ruina. Entonces sabrán que yo soy el SEÑOR. Porque dijiste: "El Nilo es mío y yo lo he hecho",
10 por eso, he aquí, estoy contra ti y contra tus ríos, y haré de la tierra de Egipto una ruina completa, una desolación, desde Migdol hasta Sevene y hasta la frontera de Etiopía .
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