1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| Ezekiel 30:1 | And the word of the Lord came to me, *saying: Jeremias 43.; Jeremias 44.; and Jeremias 46. | |
| Ezekiel 30:2 | Son of man, prophesy and say: Thus saith the Lord God: Howl ye, wo, wo to the day: | Day of vengeance, (Calmet) when the Lord shall judge, (1 Corinthians 5:2.) and Egypt shall fall a prey to the most powerful nation of the Chaldeans. (Worthington) |
| Ezekiel 30:3 | For the day is near, yea the day of the Lord is near; a cloudy day, it shall be the time of the nations. | |
| Ezekiel 30:4 | And the sword shall come upon Egypt: and there shall be dread in Ethiopia, when the wounded shall fall in Egypt, and the multitude thereof shall be taken away, and the foundations thereof shall be destroyed. | Ethiopia. Hebrew, "Chus," denoting part of Arabia, or rather Ethiopia. |
| Ezekiel 30:5 | Ethiopia, and Lybia, and Lydia, and all the rest of the crowd, and Chub, and the children of the land of the covenant, shall fall with them by the sword. | Lydia. Hebrew, "Phut," near Egypt. (Calmet) --- These troops were paid. (Haydock) --- Chub, in Mareotis. --- Covenant: the Jews or auxiliaries. Septuagint add, "the Persians and Cretans." (Calmet) --- There were Persians in Africa who followed Hercules. (Pliny, [Natural History?] 5:8.) |
| Ezekiel 30:6 | Thus saith the Lord God: They also that uphold Egypt shall fall, and the pride of her empire shall be brought down: from the tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord, the God of hosts. | |
| Ezekiel 30:7 | And they shall be desolate in the midst of the lands that are desolate, and the cities thereof shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted. | |
| Ezekiel 30:8 | And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have set a fire in Egypt, and all the helpers thereof shall be destroyed. | |
| Ezekiel 30:9 | In that day shall messengers go forth from my face, in ships, to destroy the confidence of Ethiopia; and there shall be dread among them in the day of Egypt: because it shall certainly come. | Messengers; the Chaldeans. (Calmet) --- The Nile was navigable as far as Syene. (St. Jerome) |
| Ezekiel 30:10 | Thus saith the Lord God: I will make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of Nabuchodonosor, the king of Babylon. | |
| Ezekiel 30:11 | He, and his people with him, the strongest of nations, shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw their swords upon Egypt, and shall fill the land with the slain. | |
| Ezekiel 30:12 | And I will make the channels of the rivers dry, and will deliver the land into the hand of the wicked: and will lay waste the land, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers: I, the Lord, have spoken it. | Dry. The canals were obstructed (Calmet) which rendered cavalry useless. (Herodotus 2:108.) |
| Ezekiel 30:13 | *Thus saith the Lord God: I will also destroy the idols, and I will make an end of the idols of Memphis: and there shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt: and I will cause a terror in the land of Egypt. Zacharias 13:2. | Memphis, the capital of Lower Egypt, (Calmet) where the idol or bull (Haydock) Apis was fed. (Calmet) --- Here Amasis overcame Apries. (Herodotus 2:168.) --- The Chaldeans made war on the gods as well as on the people. --- Prince Amasis was tributary to Babylon. Some of this probably regards the times of Cambyses and Ochus. (Usher, the year of the world 3478 and 3653.) (Calmet) See Ezechiel 29:14. (Haydock) |
| Ezekiel 30:14 | And I will destroy the land of Phatures, and will make a fire in Taphnis, and will execute judgments in Alexandria. | Taphnis, or Tanis, famous for the miracles of Moses. (Calmet) --- Alexandria. In the Hebrew No, which was the ancient name of that city, which was afterwards rebuilt by Alexander the Great, and from his name called Alexandria. (Challoner) --- Septuagint, "Memphis or Diospolis;" (Calmet) or Thebes, capital of Higher Egypt; (Bochart) though it seems rather a maritime town, Nahum 3:8. (Calmet) |
| Ezekiel 30:15 | And I will pour out my indignation upon Pelusium, the strength of Egypt, and will cut off the multitude of Alexandria. | Pelusium. Hebrew Sin, (Haydock) "muddy," has the same import as pelos. (Calmet) --- The place is now called Damietta. (Haydock) |
| Ezekiel 30:16 | And I will make a fire in Egypt: Pelusium shall be in pain, like a woman in labour, and Alexandria shall be laid waste, and in Memphis there shall be daily distresses. | |
| Ezekiel 30:17 | The young men of Heliopolis, and of Bubastus, shall fall by the sword; and they themselves shall go into captivity. | |
| Ezekiel 30:18 | And in Taphnis, the day shall be darkened when I shall break there the sceptres of Egypt, and the pride of her power shall cease in her: a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall be led into captivity. | Darkened: war and misery shall ensue. --- Sceptres, by dethroning Apries. --- Pride; overflowing of the Nile. See Jeremias 49:19. |
| Ezekiel 30:19 | And I will execute judgments in Egypt: and they shall know that I am the Lord. | |
| Ezekiel 30:20 | And it came to pass in the eleventh year, *in the first month, in the seventh day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying: | Year of the World 3416. Year, in which Jerusalem was taken. Pharao lost a battle. His country was afterwards invaded, (Calmet) and his subjects rebelled, ver. 21. (Haydock) --- Part of the kingdom had been already subdued, 4 Kings 24:7. (Worthington) |
| Ezekiel 30:21 | Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharao, king of Egypt; and behold it is not bound up, to be healed, to be tied up with clothes, and swathed with linen, that it might recover strength, and hold the sword. | |
| Ezekiel 30:22 | Therefore, thus saith the Lord God: Behold I come against Pharao, king of Egypt, and I will break into pieces his strong arm, which is already broken: and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand: | |
| Ezekiel 30:23 | And I will disperse Egypt among the nations, and scatter them through the countries. | |
| Ezekiel 30:24 | And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and will put my sword in his hand: and I will break the arms of Pharao, and they shall groan bitterly, being slain before his face. | |
| Ezekiel 30:25 | And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharao shall fall: and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have given my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall have stretched it forth upon the land of Egypt. | |
| Ezekiel 30:26 | And I will disperse Egypt among the nations, and will scatter them through the countries, and they shall know that I am the Lord. |