Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
Howl ye, Wo worth the day! - My Old MS. Bible, - Soule gee, woo woo to the day! heylilu , hah laiyom ! "Howl ye, Alas for the day!" The reading in our present text is taken from Coverdale' s Bible, 1536. The expressions signify that a most dreadful calamity was about to fall on Egypt and the neighboring countries, called here the "time of the heathen," or of the nations; the day of calamity to them. They are afterwards specified, Ethiopia, Libya, Lydia, and Chub, and the mingled people, probably persons from different nations, who had followed the ill fortune of Pharaoh-hophra or Pharaoh-apries, when he fled from Amasis, and settled in Upper Egypt.
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