Ezekiel 32

Ezekiel 32:2

Thou art like a young lion of the nations.

Thou art a cruel tyrant among thy neighbour nations, as a young lion is among the beasts.

Ezekiel 32:6

I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest, even to the mountains.

And whereas thou now, like a whale, swimmest in the great waters of thy land, instead of those waters shall be the blood of thy people, wherein thou mayest swim; which shall cover the earth up to the very mountain.

Ezekiel 32:7

And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.

And when thou, which art reputed the great light of the world, shalt be extinguished, the very face of the heavens shall seem to be covered with darkness; the sun shall seem clouded, and the moon without light: so great a change shall thy subversion seem to make in the world. So also verse 8.

Ezekiel 32:9

I will also vex the hearts of many people, when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations, into the countries which thou hast not known.

I will also affright and amaze the hearts of many nations round about thee, when I shall bring unto them, both the rumour and the expectation of thy destruction: even those countries shall be terrified, which are not so much as known unto thee. So also verse 10.

Ezekiel 32:14

Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord God.

Then will I give those troubled nations rest and tranquillity: they shall be as calm as deep waters; and their rivers shall flow as smoothly as oil, without any vehement and unquiet agitation.

Ezekiel 32:18

And cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.

Make thou some resemblance of the casting down of Egypt, and the adjoining nations, her partners, into the grave, as dead corpses.

Ezekiel 32:19

Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised.

What nation is there, whom thou thinkest able to compare with thee, in strength and glory? But now, how strong and goodly soever thou art, go down into the dust; and be laid together with thy godless and lewd companions, of the profane heathen.

Ezekiel 32:21

The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword.

The valiant and mighty warrior before deceased, shall, as it were out of his grave, speak to Egypt and his associates; and shall say, that they are brought down as well as he: they lie

Ezekiel 32:22

Asshur is there and all her company: his graves are about him.

The great king of Assyria, and all his company, is come down to the grave.

Ezekiel 32:23

Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, &c.

The graves of his companies and complices are set in the sides of the burial-place, round about the grave of Asshur, which lies in the midst of his attendants: all of them slain, &c.

Ezekiel 32:24

There is Elom and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword.

There is the prince of the Elamites, neighbours and assistants to the Assyrians; and all their troops; whose graves are round about the grave of their commander, all of them slain by the sword.

Ezekiel 32:26

There is Meshech, Tubal, and all her multitude: her graves are round about him.

There are the princes of the Cappadocians and Iberians, and all their multitude round about their graves.

Ezekiel 32:27

And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war: and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.

They shall not lie with those mighty ones of the heathen, who die naturally; being not stripped of their weapons of war, having their swords laid peaceably under their heads in their graves; but they shall lie amongst the mangled and slain, and shall carry the marks of their sins in their carcasses, though for the time they were terrible to the world. Verse 29, 30, as verse 24.

Ezekiel 32:31

Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his multitude.

Pharaoh shall, as it were, see this world of people coming down to the grave with him; and shall comfort himself, with such store of company in death.