Ezekiel 30:15-25

15 "I will pour out My wrath on Sin, The stronghold of Egypt; I will also cut off the hordes of Thebes.

16 "I will set a fire in Egypt; Sin will writhe in anguish, Thebes will be breached And Memphis will have distresses daily.

17 "The young men of ¹On and of Pi-beseth Will fall by the sword, And the women will go into captivity.

18 "In ²Tehaphnehes the day will be ³dark When I ⁴break there the yoke bars of Egypt. Then the pride of her power will cease in her; A cloud will cover her, And her daughters will go into captivity.

19 "Thus I will ⁵execute judgments on Egypt, And they will know that I am the LORD.""'

Victory for Babylon

20 In the ⁶eleventh * year, in the first month, on the seventh of the month, the word of the LORD came to me saying,

21 "Son of man, I have ⁷broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, behold, it has not been ⁸bound up for healing or wrapped with a bandage, that it may be strong to hold the sword.

22 "Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, 'Behold, I am ⁹against Pharaoh king of Egypt and will break his arms, both the strong and the ¹⁰broken; and I will make the sword ¹¹fall from his hand.

23 'I will ¹²scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the lands.

24 'For I will ¹³strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon and put ¹⁴My sword in his hand; and I will break the arms of Pharaoh, so that he will groan before him with the groanings of a wounded man.

25 'Thus I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, but the arms of Pharaoh will fall. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I put My sword into the hand of the king of Babylon and he ¹⁵stretches it out against the land of Egypt.

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Ezekiel 30:15-25 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EZEKIEL 30

This chapter is a continuation of the prophecy against Egypt, both against the country and the king of it. It is introduced with expressions of lamentation, because of the destruction coming on, Eze 30:1-3, and not only Egypt, and the cities thereof, should be destroyed, but all her friends, associates, and allies; the Ethiopians, Lydians, Lybians, and others, Eze 30:4-9. Nebuchadnezzar and his army were to be the instruments of her ruin, Eze 30:10-12, particular cities are mentioned by name, which should suffer much, and become desolate, Eze 30:13-19 and then Pharaoh king of Egypt himself is threatened with broken arms, and his people to be scattered among the nations, Eze 30:20-23, and the king of Babylon is again mentioned, whose arms should be strengthened to do all this, Eze 30:24-26.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 15

1. Genesis 41:45; Genesis 46:20
2. Jeremiah 43:8-13
3. Ezekiel 30:3
4. Leviticus 26:13; Isaiah 10:27; Jeremiah 27:2; Jeremiah 28:10, 13; Jeremiah 30:8; Ezekiel 34:27
5. Psalms 9:16; Ezekiel 5:8, 15; Ezekiel 25:11; Ezekiel 30:14
6. Ezekiel 26:1; Ezekiel 29:1, 17; Ezekiel 31:1
7. Psalms 10:15; Psalms 37:17; Ezekiel 30:24
8. Jeremiah 30:13; Jeremiah 46:11
9. Jeremiah 46:25; Ezekiel 29:3
10. 2 Kings 24:7; Jeremiah 37:7
11. Jeremiah 46:21
12. Ezekiel 29:12; Ezekiel 30:17, 18, 26
13. Nehemiah 6:9; Isaiah 45:1, 5; Ezekiel 30:10, 25; Zechariah 10:12
14. Ezekiel 30:11, 25; Zephaniah 2:12
15. Joshua 8:18; 1 Chronicles 21:16; Isaiah 5:25

Footnotes 11

[a]. Or "Pelusium"
[b]. Or "No"
[c]. Or "Pelusium"
[d]. Or "No"
[e]. Or "Noph"
[f]. Or "adversaries"
[g]. Or "Aven"
[h]. Lit "they"
[i]. So with many mss and ancient versions; M.T. "restrain"
[j]. Lit "to give healing"
[k]. Lit "to put a bandage, to wrap it"