Ezekiel 32:32

32 "For he spread my terror in [the] land of [the] living, and [so] he will be laid down in the midst of the uncircumcised with those killed by [the] sword: Pharaoh and all of his hordes,"{declares} the Lord Yahweh.

Ezekiel 32:32 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 32:32

For I have caused my terror in the land of the living
Or, "his terror" ^F6; there is a double reading. The Keri or marginal reading, which we follow has it "my terror" ^F7; but the Cetib or writing is his terror; and so read the Septuagint. Syriac, and Arabic versions; both may be taken, and the sense be, I have caused or suffered him, Pharaoh king of Egypt, to be a terror to the nations about him, particularly to the land of Israel, which the Targum expressly mentions as the land of the living; and now I will terrify him who has terrified others: and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with those that
are slain with the sword;
shall have a common burial with other Heathen nations; even with such, who, in a way of judgment, have perished by the sword of their victorious enemies, as he will: even Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord God;
the king of Egypt, his subjects, and his soldiers, as numerous as they are; and thus ends this doleful ditty, and funeral dirge or lamentation, composed, taken up, and sung for Pharaoh as ordered, thereby to assure him of his certain destruction.

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FOOTNOTES:

F6 (wtytx) "terrorem ejus", Grotius; "consternationem ejus", Starckius.
F7 (ytytx) "terrorem meum", Pagninus, Munster, Tigurine version, Junius & Tremellius, Polanus.

Ezekiel 32:32 In-Context

30 There are [also] the princes of [the] north, all of them, all of [the] Sidonians who have gone down, being ashamed [to lie] with [the] slain because of their terror [that they caused] from their might, and they lie uncircumcised with [those killed] by [the] sword, and they bear their disgrace [along with] [the people] going down to [the] grave.

31 Pharaoh will see them, and he will be comforted over all of his hordes killed by [the] sword, Pharaoh and all of his army," {declares} the Lord Yahweh.

32 "For he spread my terror in [the] land of [the] living, and [so] he will be laid down in the midst of the uncircumcised with those killed by [the] sword: Pharaoh and all of his hordes,"{declares} the Lord Yahweh.

Footnotes

• [a] Or "although"
• [b] Hebrew "I gave"
• [c] Literally "declaration of"