Ezechiele 29:5

5 E ti esporrò in abbandono nel deserto, te, e tutto il pesce dei tuoi fiumi; tu caderai sopra la campagna, tu non sarai nè raccolto, nè ricercato; io ti ho dato per pasto alle fiere della terra, ed agli uccelli del cielo.

Ezechiele 29:5 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 29:5

And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee, and
all the fish of thy rivers
Where fish in common cannot live, but die as soon almost as out of the water, and on dry land, excepting those that are of the amphibious kind. This wilderness designs the deserts of Lybia and Cyrene, where the battle was fought between Hophra and Amasis; and where the Egyptian army perished, only their king, before compared to a crocodile, which lives on land, as well as in water, escaped. The Targum is,

``I will cast thee into a wilderness, and all the princes of thy strength:''

thou shalt fall upon the open fields thou shalt not be brought
together, nor gathered,
this is to he understood of his army; for what is proper to an army is sometimes ascribed to the head or general of it; which fell by the sword in the fields of Lybia and Cyrene and was so discomfited, that the remains of it could not be brought and gathered together again: or the sense is, that those that were slain were left in the open fields, and had no burial; they were not gathered to the grave, as Kimchi interprets it; and so the Targum,

``upon the face of the field thy carcass shall be cast; it shall not be gathered, nor shall it be buried:''

this was only true of the carcasses of the soldiers slain in battle, not of the king, who fled, and afterwards in another battle was taken by Amasis, and strangled in the city of Sais, where he was buried among his ancestors, as Herodotus ^F8 relates: I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls
of the heaven;
that is, his army; as the armies of the kings, beast, and false prophet, will be at the battle of Armageddon, when the two latter will be taken and cast alive into the burning lake, of which this monarch was an emblem, ( Revelation 19:17-20 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F8 Euterpe, sive l. 2. c. 169.

Ezechiele 29:5 In-Context

3 Parla, e di’: Così ha detto il Signore Iddio: Eccomi sopra te, Faraone, re di Egitto, gran coccodrillo, che giaci in mezzo de’ tuoi fiumi; che hai detto: Il mio fiume è mio; ed io mi son fatto me stesso.

4 E ti metterò de’ graffi nelle mascelle, e farò che il pesce de’ tuoi fiumi si attaccherà alle tue scaglie, e ti trarrò fuor di mezzo de’ tuoi fiumi, e tutto il pesce de’ tuoi fiumi resterà attaccato alle tue scaglie.

5 E ti esporrò in abbandono nel deserto, te, e tutto il pesce dei tuoi fiumi; tu caderai sopra la campagna, tu non sarai nè raccolto, nè ricercato; io ti ho dato per pasto alle fiere della terra, ed agli uccelli del cielo.

6 E tutti gli abitatori di Egitto conosceranno che io sono il Signore; perciocchè sono stati un sostegno di canna alla casa d’Israele.

7 Quando essi ti han preso in mano, tu ti sei rotto, ed hai lor forato tutto il costato; e quando si sono appoggiati sopra te, tu ti sei spezzato, e li hai tutti lasciati star ritti sopra i lombi.