1, Oc. f That God that drowned one of thy Predeceffors with his Army, Horſemen and Horſes in the Red Sea, at whole Naine thou ſhouldeſt tremble; who ever fulfilled his Word, and isthe fame ; 'tis he foretels thee by my Mouth what 1s to be. g See chap. 28. ver, 22, let. f. h See wer. 2. 1et. d. i Ie may refer, either to the Grandeur of this King, as *f he had been P/arach the Great, or to the Jargeneſs of this Creature, ro which he is by this Hieroglyphick compared. & Some would have it the Whale, but that lies nor in Rivers, as in his own plac? 'tis furely the Crocodile, of which Nilzs hath many ; and chap. 32. 2. our Prophet doth, and fo 7/3. 51. 9. compare rhe Egyptian King to that devouring Serpent or Dragon. 7 Notonly at reſt, but waiting for a Prey, which never ſcapes, if this devourer lay any conſiderable hold of it. m N:{us was the chief River of Egyyr, but either there were ſome leſs Rivers that runinto Ni/w, or ſome Diviſionsof it, where it made ſore Iflands, or the ſeven Mouthsof it, where it falls into the Sea, which may give the Name of Rivers to it, or thoſe Channels that were cut large and deep to convey Warer into the Country, in all which theſe Crocodiles bred, and reſted, and waited for their Prey. » Which hath thought, accounted and boaſted; by which it appears the Prophet {peaks of a Dragon in a figurative Sence. o Kingdom, Power, Richzs and Forces ſignified here by a River : All the Strergth and Glory of Egypt are mine, faith this proud King. p Ar my diſpoſe and will : 'tis probable thar this King of Egypr was an aſpiring Kiog, who aimed at abſojute Power, amd thought he had ſe- cured 1t to himſelf; for the River, the Emblem of the Kingdom, is mine, ſairh he. 9q This ſeems to give ſome credit to the ConjeQture, that this King had raiſed the Prerogative Royal, and done what others b-fore him would but could not, and therefore aſſumes it to himſelf as hisown Work, forgetting God who gives Kingdoms, and whoſe they are. 7 Somewhat like the proud Boaſt, 1h3ve built for the Glory of my Name, Dan. 4+ 39. and like to meet as ſad an End.
Bur * T s will put hooks 7 into thy chaws, and I will
* Us 3* cauſe the fiſh « of thy rivers to ſtick x unto thy ſcales, and - TI will bring thee up out of th? midlt of thy rivers, and bh. 38. © 411 the fiſh of thy rivers ſhall ſtick unto thy ſcale.
: Thou art ſecure againſt all, but God will draw thee out of thy River to thy Ruine. #£ The AMcgory is continued ; Fiſh are drawn our
as it ſhall fill them with Fears and Troubles, fo it ſhould be a convin. ecing Argument to them, that God had done this, and puniſh'd them and theit proud King, whouſed to ſay, as Herodote reports, That God could not turn him out of his Kingdom. f Both King, Princes, Coun. ſellers and People of Ezypr. g Treacherouſly, as next Verſe, dealr with the Jews, whom they ſeduced to truſt, and depend on them, and then perfidionſly broke promiſe with them; it was the Sin of the Jews to truſt Egypt, it was Egypr's great Sin to falſify promiſe with the Jews, and for this God now puniſheth Egype.
7 When they + took hold of thee by thy hand ;, thou didſt break #, and rent / all their ſhoulder : and when they leaned 2 upon thee, thou brakeſt, aud madeſt
all their loins » to be at a ſtand.
b The Jews unable to ſtand on their own Legs, - as Men ready to fall. i Catch thine Hand to lean on, as when belieged by the Chalde. ans. k Tt includesa deſigned and voluntary Failure : Egypt would not ſupport. 7 Didſt tear, and pierce, and wound Arm and Shoulder, didit them much miſchief inſtead of benefiting them, as thou had| promiſed, Jer. 37. 7. and 42. 17. : The ſame thing in Words lictle different. n Theſe are the Strengthof a Man, thou haſt put them to uſe all their Strength to repel the Enemy, thou haſt been chief Oc. caſion of their engaging againſt.
8 © Theretore 0 thus ſaith the Lord GOD, Behold, I
will bring a ſword p upon thee, and cutoff man 9 and beaſt » out of thee. o For thy Atheiſtical Pride, and thy perfidious Miſchief to the Houſe of 1/rac!, and other thy Sins. p War and the effe&s of it. Firſt, aCivil War aroſe againſt this King Hphra, who weak and contemned, and fallen under the Jealouſies and Diſguſts of his Subje&s after his overthrow in the Deſerts of Libya and Cyrexe, was again overthrown by his Rebel-Subje&s in a bloody Battel at Memphis, was taken in his flight towards Sain his Royal Seat, and ſome time after ſtrangled by the enraged Rout, The next$word brought on Hophra's Succeſſor, and on the Land of Egypt, was the Sword of Nebachadnezzer in the ſame Year after the overthrow of Tyrws, the Civil War of Egypt inviting him to take the occaſion, and ſome few Requeſts, 'ris likely from the Rebellious ro aſſiſt them, .q By the Sword in Batte), and Sieges, and by Famine. + Eaten up by a numerous Army invading and prevail. | ing, and which will drive away what they eat not, The ſame Phraſe you have chap. 14. ver. 12. let. z. and wer. 17. let. r.
9 And the land s of Egypt ſhall be |} deſolate * andy waſte; and they ſhall know that I a»: the LORD; be
cauſe « he hath ſaid, The river is mine, and I have made it
s That part here intended, ſay ſome, and in the 10th Verſe boun- ded from Syene to the Borders of Ethiopia; nor is this inconſiſtent with that wer. 2. againſtall Egyp?, for all Egypr ſuffered much, rhough all were not equally waſted and turned into a deſolation, as theſe parts ſhall be. s A Deſolation, 7. e. moſt deſolate and waſted by the Sword of the Enemy ,and by Drought, (as the Word imports both) and this latter part of the Judgment was executed by theFolly of the 12£- gyptian Roirolets, who made a mighty Lake Mzr:s, to fill which they much drained and weakned Nils thatit could not, as before it did, water and fertilize the Land, ſutable to 1ſs. 19. 5. * See ver. 3- If:
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10 Behold therefore, I am againſt x thee, and againſt
thy rivers yz, and I will make the land of Egypt + utt' terly waſte z, and deſolate, * from the Tower #s of t Sy” ene b even unto the border of Ethiopia tn