“ ‘ “This is the lamentation with which they will lament. The daughters of the nations will lament with this. They will lament with it over Egypt, and over all her multitude,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”
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“ ‘ “This is the lamentation with which they will lament. The daughters of the nations will lament with this. They will lament with it over Egypt, and over all her multitude,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”
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This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament her: the daughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall lament for her, even for Egypt, and for all her multitude, saith the Lord GOD.
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This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament; the daughters of the nations shall lament therewith; for Egypt, and for all her multitude, shall they lament therewith, saith the Lord GOD.'
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Passages linked to Ezekiel 32:16 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 2 Samuel 1:17 David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son
- 2 Chronicles 35:25 Jeremiah lamented for Josiah, and all the singing men and singing women spoke of Josiah in their lamentations to this day; and they made them an ordinance in Israel. Behold, they are written in the lamentations.
- Ezekiel 26:17 They will take up a lamentation over you, and tell you, “How you are destroyed, who were inhabited by seafaring men, the renowned city, who was strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who caused their terror to be on all who lived there!”
- Ezekiel 32:2 ‘Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and tell him, “You were likened to a young lion of the nations; yet you are as a monster in the seas. You broke out with your rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet, and fouled their rivers.”
- 2 Samuel 3:33-34 The king lamented for Abner, and said, “Should Abner die as a fool dies? Your hands weren’t bound, and your feet weren’t put into fetters. As a man falls before the children of iniquity, so you fell.” All the people wept again over him.
- Jeremiah 9:17 Yahweh of Armies says, “Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come. Send for the skillful women, that they may come.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Eze 32:16 This [is] the lamentation wherewith they shall…
Eze 32:16 This [is] the lamentation wherewith they shall lament her: the daughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall lament for her, [even] for Egypt, and for all her multitude, saith the Lord GOD.
Ver. 16. This is the lamentation.] And this is the epilogue of this former prophecy; the latter followeth, being of the self-same argument - viz., a funeral dirge and exequies over Egypt.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain This heavy, mournful, and sad account, which the prophet…
This heavy, mournful, and sad account, which the prophet hath given of the state of Egypt,
is the lamentation, the funeral speech of this kingdom; for this, as a funeral oration, tells us what was their ancient glory, and what is now their miserable reproach and loss.
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They shall lament; her friends, or the Egyptians themselves rather.
The daughters of the nations: this may be expository of the former, and tell us who they are that shall lament Egypt, the provinces and cities of their neighbouring nations; or literally, the daughters, the tender-hearted virgins and women abroad.
Even for Egypt; ruined Egypt.
All her multitude; the common people, many of whom suffered for what they could not prevent; a sort of people that were fitter to be pitied and spared, than to be robbed and slain, a sort of people none but unrelenting hearts could be harsh to or hasty with.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain This is the lamentation with which they shall lament…
This is the lamentation with which they shall lament her,.... The Egyptians themselves, or rather they that are after mentioned. The Targum is,
"the prophet said, a lamentation is this prophecy, and it shall be for a lamentation;''
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he was bid at the beginning of it to take up a lamentation, and now at the end of it he pronounces it to be one, and that it should be sung as such:
the daughters of the nations shall lament for her; either literally understood, it being the business and custom of women to say or sing the funeral dirge, or the lamentation at the interment of the deceased; or figuratively, the inhabitants of other nations. So Ben Melech and the Targum,
"the villages of the people shall lament her'';
that is, the inhabitants of them, who were in alliance with Egypt, and under its protection:
they shall lament for her, even for Egypt, and for all her multitude; for the desolation of the land, and for the vast numbers of people that should be slain with the sword, or carried captive:
saith the Lord God; which is added for the confirmation of it; for what he has spoken shall be done.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain This is the lamentation - This mournful account, which…
This is the lamentation - This mournful account, which the prophet has given of Egypt.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Eze 32:16. This is the lamentation wherewith they shall…
Eze 32:16. This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament her — This is the substance of the lamentation, which may be properly used to bewail the calamities which Egypt shall suffer: see note on Eze 32:2. The daughters of the nations shall lament her — That is, the people of the neighbouring countries shall use such like words as these when they hear of Egypt’s calamities: thus the daughter of Zion and of Babylon signifies the inhabitants of those cities. This verse alludes to the mourning women, whose office it was to lament at funerals.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Daughters of the nations - Pagan kingdoms.
Daughters of the nations - Pagan kingdoms.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain As in Eze 19:14. This is a prophetical lamentation;…
As in Eze 19:14. This is a prophetical lamentation; yet so it shall come to pass [GROTIUS].
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 16. Davidson translates literally: It is a lamentation, and…
16. Davidson translates literally: It is a lamentation, and they shall chant it; the daughters of the nation shall chant it; over Egypt and over all her multitude shall they chant it. (Compare Jer_9:17.)
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 16. Lit. It is a lamentation and they shall…
16. Lit. It is a lamentation and they shall chant it (LXX. thou shalt chant it); the daughters of the nations shall chant it; over Egypt and over all her multitude shall they chant it. The daughters of the nations, in Eze_32:18 the daughters of the famous nations, chant the dirge because professional wailers were chiefly women; cf. Jer_9:17, “call for the mourning women … and let them take up a wailing for us.”
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (16) Daughters of the nations is a common enough…
(16) Daughters of the nations is a common enough expression for the nations themselves, but is peculiarly appropriate in connection with a lamentation, since the formal mourning of the East was always performed by women.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain This is the lamentation, etc. The work of mourning…
This is the lamentation, etc. The work of mourning for the dead was for the most part assigned to women (2Sa_1:24; Jer_9:17; 2Ch_35:25) and is therefore appropriately assigned to the daughters of the nations. He hears, as it were, their wailing over the fallen greatness of Egypt, even in the solitude of Tel-Abib.
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