22aHer noise shall go like a serpent, For they shall march with an army And come against her with axes, Like those who chop wood.
23 “They shall acut down her forest,” says the Lord, “Though it cannot be searched, Because they are innumerable, And more numerous than bgrasshoppers.
24 The daughter of Egypt shall be ashamed; She shall be delivered into the hand Of athe people of the north.”
25 The Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will bring punishment on1 Amon of aNo, and Pharaoh and Egypt, bwith their gods and their kings—Pharaoh and those who ctrust in him.
26aAnd I will deliver them into the hand of those who seek their lives, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and the hand of his servants. bAfterward it shall be inhabited as in the days of old,” says the Lord.
God Will Preserve Israel
27 “Buta do not fear, O My servant Jacob, And do not be dismayed, O Israel! For behold, I will bsave you from afar, And your offspring from the land of their captivity; Jacob shall return, have rest and be at ease; No one shall make him afraid.
28 Do not fear, O Jacob My servant,” says the Lord, “For I am with you; For I will make a complete end of all the nations To which I have driven you, But I will not make aa complete end of you. I will rightly bcorrect you, For I will not leave you wholly unpunished.”
Prophecy of the invasion of Egypt by Nebuchadnezzar, which took place sixteen years after the taking of Jerusalem. Having spent thirteen years in the siege of Tyre, and having obtained nothing for his pains, he is promised by God Egypt for his reward in humbling Tyre (Ezekiel 29:17-20; Eze. 30:1-31:18). The intestine commotions between Amasis and Pharaoh-hophra prepared his way (compare Note, see on Isaiah 19:1, etc.).
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