I will set a fire in Egypt Sin will be in great anguish. No will be broken up. Memphis will have adversaries in the daytime.
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I will set a fire in Egypt Sin will be in great anguish. No will be broken up. Memphis will have adversaries in the daytime.
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And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall have great pain, and No shall be rent asunder, and Noph shall have distresses daily.
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And I will set a fire in Egypt; Sin shall be in great convulsion, and No shall be rent asunder; and in Noph shall come adversaries in the day-time.
Cross-references (2)
Passages linked to Ezekiel 30:16 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Ezekiel 28:18 By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of your commerce, you have profaned your sanctuaries. Therefore I have brought out a fire from the middle of you. It has devoured you. I have turned you to ashes on the earth in the sight of all those who see you.
- Ezekiel 30:8-9 They will know that I am Yahweh when I have set a fire in Egypt, and all her helpers are destroyed. “ ‘ “In that day messengers will go out from before me in ships to make the careless Ethiopians afraid. There will be anguish on them, as in the day of Egypt; for, behold, it comes.”
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Eze 30:16 And I will set fire in Egypt:…
Eze 30:16 And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall have great pain, and No shall be rent asunder, and Noph [shall have] distresses daily.
Ver. 16. I will set fire in Egypt.] See Eze 30:8.
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Will set fire: see Eze 30:14, and Eze 20:47.
Will set fire: see Eze 30:14, and Eze 20:47.
Sin: see Eze 30:15. Great pain: see Eze 30:9.
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No: Eze 30:14,15.
Rent asunder; her walls, and towers, and fortresses battered, torn, and broken through by the continued violence of engines, and by the assaults of the soldiers.
Noph: see Eze 30:13.
Distresses: being the chief city where king and councils sat, whence orders should be given, whither all intelligences were brought, all should be so bad abroad, that nothing but fears and distresses fill their ears, mouths, and hearts, beside the wants that would increase daily on them.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And I will set fire in Egypt,.... Kindle a…
And I will set fire in Egypt,.... Kindle a war there, which shall consume it; see Eze 30:8,
Sin shall have great pain; as a woman in travail, seeing its destruction is just at hand; the same with Pelusium, as before:
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and No shall be rent asunder, the walls of it shall be broken down by the enemy, or a breach shall be made in it, like the breach of waters which were about it; see Nah 3:8,
and Noph shall have distresses daily: that is, Memphis, as before; enemies shall surround it daily, as the Targum; shall besiege and distress it, until it is taken: or, "in the daytime"; their enemies should not come as thieves in the night, openly in the day. Abendana interprets it of their unfortunate day, their star being unlucky.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Shall be rent - Her walls, and towers, and…
Shall be rent - Her walls, and towers, and fortresses broken through by the violence of engines, and by the assaults of the soldiers.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 16. Noph] Cairo or Kahira; see Eze 30:13.
Verse 16. Noph] Cairo or Kahira; see Eze 30:13.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain distresses daily--MAURER translates, "enemies during the day," that is,…
distresses daily--MAURER translates, "enemies during the day," that is, open enemies who do not wait for the covert of night to make their attacks (compare Jer 6:4; Jer 15:8). However, the Hebrew, though rarely, is sometimes rendered (see Psa 13:2) as in English Version.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 16. Distresses daily — R.V., “adversaries in the daytime.”…
16. Distresses daily — R.V., “adversaries in the daytime.” It should become so feeble that there would be no need of a conspiracy or night surprise.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 16. rent asunder] i.e. broken through by armed assault,…
16. rent asunder] i.e. broken through by armed assault, cf. Eze_26:10 (last words).
have distresses daily] distresses (or adversaries) in the day-time; cf. Zep_2:4, “they shall drive out Ashdod at noonday” (Jer_15:8). The construction is unnatural, and the text may be in some confusion. LXX. reads differently.
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