Ezekiel 32:32

32 For he put his fear in the land of the living: and he will be put to rest among those without circumcision, with those who have been put to death with the sword, even Pharaoh and all his people, says the Lord.

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 the chiefs of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, who have gone down with those who have been put to the sword: they are shamed on account of all the fear caused by their strength; they are resting there without circumcision, among those who have been put to the sword, and are put to shame with those who go down to the underworld.

31 Pharaoh will see them and be comforted on account of all his people: even Pharaoh and all his army, put to death by the sword, says the Lord.

32 For he put his fear in the land of the living: and he will be put to rest among those without circumcision, with those who have been put to death with the sword, even Pharaoh and all his people, says the Lord.