Ezekiel 30:16

16 And I will set fire to Egypt; Pelusium shall be in great agony; Thebes shall be breached, and ¹Memphis shall face enemies^[a] by day.

Ezekiel 30:16 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 30:16

And I will set fire in Egypt
Kindle a war there, which shall consume it; see ( Ezekiel 30:8 ) : Sin shall have great pain;
as a woman in travail, seeing its destruction is just at hand; the same with Pelusium, as before: and No shall be rent asunder,
the walls of it shall be broken down by the enemy, or a breach shall be made in it, like the breach of waters which were about it; see ( Nahum 3:8 ) : and Noph shall have distresses daily:
that is, Memphis, as before; enemies shall surround it daily, as the Targum; shall besiege and distress it, until it is taken: or, "in the daytime"; their enemies should not come as thieves in the night, openly in the day. Abendana interprets it of their unfortunate day, their star being unlucky.

Ezekiel 30:16 In-Context

14 I will make Pathros a desolation and will set fire to Zoan and will execute judgments on Thebes.

15 And I will pour out my wrath on Pelusium, the stronghold of Egypt, and cut off the multitude of Thebes.

16 And I will set fire to Egypt; Pelusium shall be in great agony; Thebes shall be breached, and Memphis shall face enemies by day.

17 The young men of On and of Pi-beseth shall fall by the sword, and the women shall go into captivity.

18 At Tehaphnehes the day shall be dark, when I break there the yoke bars of Egypt, and her proud might shall come to an end in her; she shall be covered by a cloud, and her daughters shall go into captivity.

Cross References

• 1. 30:16 [See ver. 13 above]

Footnotes

• [a] 30:16 Or 'distress'