1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible

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Ezekiel 32:1	And it came to pass in the twelfth year, *in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying:	Year of the World 3417, Year before Christ 587. Twelfth. He counts from the captivity of Jechonias, as Sedecias reigned only eleven years. (Worthington)
Ezekiel 32:2	Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharao, the king of Egypt, and say to him: Thou art like the lion of the nations, and the dragon that is in the sea: and thou didst push with the horn in thy rivers, and didst trouble the waters with thy feet, and didst trample upon their streams.	Dragon, or crocodile; two of the most terrible creatures. --- With the horn is not expressed in Hebrew and the crocodile has nothing like a horn. It has four feet, with which it makes the water muddy. (Calmet)
Ezekiel 32:3	Therefore, thus saith the Lord God: *I will spread out my net over thee with the multitude of many people, and I will draw thee up in my net. Ezechiel 12:13.; Ezechiel 17:20.	Net. Septuagint, "hook," Ezechiel 29:4. (Calmet) --- Some take the crocodile with a net, ver. 3. (Elian. Hist. 10:21.)
Ezekiel 32:4	And I will throw thee out on the land; I will cast thee away in the open field; and I will cause all the fowls of the air to dwell upon thee; and I will fill the beasts of all the earth with thee.
Ezekiel 32:5	And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and will fill thy hills with thy corruption.	Corruption. Septuagint, "blood." But romuth (Haydock) means rather "worms." (Syriac) (Calmet)
Ezekiel 32:6	And I will water the earth with thy stinking blood upon the mountains, and the valleys shall be filled with thee.
Ezekiel 32:7	*And I will cover the heavens, when thou shalt be put out, and I will make the stars thereof dark: I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light. Isaias 13:10.; Joel 2:10.; Joel 3:15.; Matthew 24:29.	\f + \fr 32:7-8\ft Out, like a candle, by death; extinctus. (Haydock) --- The glory of Egypt was so great, that at its fall the light of heaven seemed diminished. (Worthington) --- Great desolation is thus intimated. --- When, etc., is not in some Latin copies, nor in Hebrew, etc. (Calmet)
Ezekiel 32:8	I will make all the lights of heaven to mourn over thee, and I will cause darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord God, when thy wounded shall fall in the midst of the land, saith the Lord God.
Ezekiel 32:9	And I shall provoke to anger the heart of many people, when I shall have brought in thy destruction among the nations upon the lands which thou knowest not.	Anger, as they will not know why I have treated thee so severely: or rather, they shall be afraid for themselves, ver. 10. (Calmet)
Ezekiel 32:10	And I will make many people to be amazed at thee, and their kings shall be horridly afraid for thee, when my sword shall begin to fly upon their faces: and they shall be astonished on a sudden, every one for his own life, in the day of thy ruin.
Ezekiel 32:11	For thus saith the Lord God: The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee.
Ezekiel 32:12	By the swords of the mighty I will overthrow thy multitude: all these nations are invincible: and they shall waste the pride of Egypt, and the multitude thereof shall be destroyed.	Invincible, when they wield God's sword. Cyrus easily conquered them. (Haydock) --- Hebrew, "strong,." Septuagint, "pestiferous."
Ezekiel 32:13	I will destroy also all the beasts thereof, that were beside the great waters: and the foot of man shall trouble them no more, neither shall the hoof of beasts trouble them.
Ezekiel 32:14	Then will I make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord God:	Oil. It is very transparent. It seems the Nile was rendered muddy by cattle, etc.
Ezekiel 32:15	When I shall have made the land of Egypt desolate: and the land shall be destitute of her fulness, when I shall have struck all the inhabitants thereof: and they shall know that I am the Lord.	Fulness, or all of it shall be desolate.
Ezekiel 32:16	This is the lamentation, and they shall lament therewith: the daughters of the nations shall lament therewith: for Egypt, and for the multitude thereof they shall lament therewith, saith the Lord God.
Ezekiel 32:17	And it came to pass in the twelfth year, *in the fifteenth day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying:	Year of the World 3417. Month: probably the twelfth, ver. 1.
Ezekiel 32:18	Son of man, sing a mournful song for the multitude of Egypt: and cast her down, both her, and the daughters of the mighty nations to the lowest part of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.	Down: announce this catastrophe. (Calmet) --- Apries was slain by order of Amasis. (Diodorus 1.) (Jeremias 44:30.)
Ezekiel 32:19	Whom dost thou excel in beauty? go down and sleep with the uncircumcised.
Ezekiel 32:20	They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain with the sword: the sword is given, they have drawn her down, and all her people.
Ezekiel 32:21	The most mighty among the strong ones shall speak to him from the midst of hell, they that went down with his helpers, and slept uncircumcised, slain by the sword.	Most. Septuagint, "giants shall say to thee: Remain in the depth of the pit. Whom dost thou excel? descend," etc. (Haydock) --- They vary much in this chapter from the Hebrew. (St. Jerome) --- Helpers; Lybians, etc., Ezechiel 30:5. These shall come to compliment the king. (Calmet) --- After a battle, those of the same nation were buried together, ver. 22. (Theodoret) --- The Egyptians had tombs like houses, in which there were separate holes or apartments (Calmet) as in large vaults. (Haydock)
Ezekiel 32:22	Assur is there, and all his multitude: their graves are round about him, all of them slain, and that fell by the sword.
Ezekiel 32:23	Whose graves are set in the lowest parts of the pit: and his multitude lay round about his grave: all of them slain, and fallen by the sword, they that heretofore spread terror in the land of the living.
Ezekiel 32:24	There is Elam, and all his multitude, round about his grave, all of them slain, and fallen by the sword: that went down uncircumcised to the lowest parts of the earth: that caused their terror in the land of the living, and they have borne their shame with them that go down into the pit.	Shame. They are buried without any distinction.
Ezekiel 32:25	In the midst of the slain they have set him a bed among all his people: their graves are round about him: all these are uncircumcised, and slain by the sword: for they spread their terror in the land of the living, and have borne their shame with them that descend into the pit: they are laid in the midst of the slain.
Ezekiel 32:26	There is Mosoch, and Thubal, and all their multitude: their graves are round about him: all of them uncircumcised, and slain, and falling by the sword, though they spread their terror in the land of the living.
Ezekiel 32:27	And they shall not sleep with the brave, and with them that fell uncircumcised, that went down to hell with their weapons, and laid their swords under their heads, and their iniquities were in their bones: because they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.	Not. Some copies of Septuagint omit the negation. Others render the Hebrew, "Have they not slept?" etc. These nations were deprived of military honours, dying like cowards; and therefore their swords were not placed with them in the grave. (Calmet) --- It was customary to inter such things as the deceased had liked the most. (Serv. in Virgil's Aeneid X. Arma quibus laetatus habe tua, etc. Simon (1 Machabees 13:29.) placed arms and representations of ships on the pillars at Modin, in honour of his kindred. If Elam, etc., had not received such distinction, why should the Egyptian repine? Were they any better? (Calmet) --- The country and king of the Elamites, Assyrians, and other infidels, shall be destroyed. (Worthington)
Ezekiel 32:28	So thou also shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and shalt sleep with them that are slain by the sword.	Midst. This threat would make great impression on the Egyptians, who were particularly solicitous to be buried with their fathers.
Ezekiel 32:29	There is Edom and her kings, and all her princes, who with their army are joined with them that are slain by the sword: and have slept with the uncircumcised, and with them that go down into the pit.	Edom. Septuagint add, "and all the Assyrian princes." Some copies omit Edom. (Haydock) --- This nation had laid aside circumcision, which Hircan forced them to resume. They had been present at the siege of Jerusalem, Ezechiel 35. (Calmet)
Ezekiel 32:30	There are all the princes of the north, and all the hunters: who were brought down with the slain, fearing and confounded in their strength: who slept uncircumcised with them that are slain by the sword, and have borne their shame with them that go down into the pit.	Hunters of men, like Nemrod, the first king of Assyria. (Haydock)
Ezekiel 32:31	Pharao saw them, and he was comforted concerning all his multitude, which was slain by the sword: Pharao, and all his army, saith the Lord God:
Ezekiel 32:32	Because I have spread my terror in the land of the living, and he hath slept in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are slain by the sword: Pharao, and all his multitude, saith the Lord God.	My. Hebrew, Septuagint, "his," (Calmet) alluding to the ravages of Nechao; (Grotius) though the Hebrew may also signify my, as the Jews read Egypt, and Palestine, the land of the living, were filled with terror. After the latter had been chastised, Pharao might dread (Calmet) a worse fate; (Haydock) and the multitudes slain before him, might afford him some (Calmet) wretched consolation. (Haydock) --- It is evident that these nations believed the existence of separate spirits, and had not given in to the errors of the Sadducees, or of the Metempsychosis. (Calmet)