Ezekiel 30:3

3 ¹For the day is near, ²the day of the Lord is near; it will be ³a day of clouds, a time of doom for^[a] the nations.

Ezekiel 30:3 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 30:3

For the day is near
The day of Egypt's destruction, the time fixed for it: even the day of the Lord is near;
the day appointed by him, and in which he would make himself known by the judgments he executed: Kimchi observes, that, the same year this prophecy was delivered, Egypt was given into the hands of the king of Babylon: a cloudy day;
or; "a day of cloud" ^F5; which was seldom seen in Egypt in a literal sense, rarely having any rain, their country being watered by the Nile; but now, in a figurative sense, the clouds would gather thick and black, and threaten with a horrible tempest of divine wrath, and of ruin and destruction: it shall be the time of the Heathen:
both when the Heathen nation of the Chaldeans should distress and conquer others; and when Heathen nations, as the Egyptians, Ethiopians, and others, should be destroyed by them. The Targum is,

``it shall be the time of the breaking or destruction of the people.''

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FOOTNOTES:

F5 (Nne Mwy) "dies nubis", V. L. Pagniaus, Montanus, Cocceius, Starckius.

Ezekiel 30:3 In-Context

1 The word of the Lord came to me:

2 “Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord God: “Wail, ‘Alas for the day! ’

3 For the day is near, the day of the Lord is near; it will be a day of clouds, a time of doom for the nations.

4 A sword shall come upon Egypt, and anguish shall be in Cush, when the slain fall in Egypt, and her wealth is carried away, and her foundations are torn down.

5 Cush, and Put, and Lud, and all Arabia, and Libya, and the people of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword.

Cross References

• 1. 30:3 [See ver. 2 above]
• 2. 30:3 ch. 7:7, 12; Joel 1:15; 2:1; Zeph. 1:7
• 3. 30:3 ch. 34:12

Footnotes

• [a] 30:3 Hebrew lacks 'doom for'