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Ezekiel 32:16

in Ezekiel 32

This is the lament they will chant for her; the daughters of the nations will chant it. Over Egypt and all her multitudes they will chant it, declares the Lord GOD.”

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament; the daughters of the nations shall lament therewith; over Egypt, and over all her multitude, shall they lament therewith, saith the Lord Jehovah.

KJV

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.

This verse in Ezekiel 32

Commentary

6 notes on this verse

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

This prophecy concludes and completes the burden of Egypt, and leaves it and all its multitude in the pit of destruction. We are here invited to attend the funeral of that once flourishing kingdom, to lament its fall, and to take a view of those who attend it to the grave and accompany it in the grave. This dead corpse of a kingdom is here brought to the grave.

This site's exposition

the land of Egypt a desolation

on Ezekiel 32:15-16

The recognition formula closes the first oracle, then shall they know that I am the Lord. Verse 16 hands the lament to the daughters of the nations, which Henry reads as the earth called to witness a fall. The second half takes up the same king from inside the grave.

This site's exposition

the daughters of the nations will

Israel and its neighbors hired women skilled in keening to lead a funeral lament, as Jeremiah 9:17 calls for the wailing women. Here the daughters of the nations chant the lament. They mourn over Egypt and her multitudes while they still live.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel · Written before 420.

proposed

(Chapter XXXII, verse 1 and following) And it was in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month (or tenth), on one day (the Vulgate is silent on the day) of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him: You are like a lion among the nations, and like a dragon in the sea; you stirred up your horns in your rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet, and trampled their (or your) rivers.

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

This is the lamentation with which they shall lament her,.... The Egyptians themselves, or rather they that are after mentioned.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Daughters of the nations - Pagan kingdoms.

The words behind it

17 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • קִינָ֥ה[is] a lamentation

    kinahH7015 →18 times

  • הִיא֙it

    hi'H1931 →1879 times

  • וְק֣וֹנְנ֔וּהָand people will chant it

    vekonuhaH6969 →8 times

  • בְּנ֥וֹת[the] daughters of

    benotH1323 →588 times

  • הַגּוֹיִ֖םthe nations

    hagoyimH1471 →561 times

  • תְּקוֹנֵ֣נָּהthey will chant

    tekonenahH6969 →8 times

  • אוֹתָ֑הּ<obj.> it

    ʾotahH853 →10935 times

  • עַל־over

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • מִצְרַ֤יִםEgypt

    mitzrayimH4714 →641 times

  • וְעַל־and over

    veal-H5921 →5755 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הֲמוֹנָהּ֙multitude its

    hamonahH1995 →83 times

  • תְּקוֹנֵ֣נָּהthey will chant

    tekonenahH6969 →8 times

  • אוֹתָ֔הּ<obj.> it

    ʾotahH853 →10935 times

  • נְאֻ֖ם[the] utterance of

    neumH5002 →376 times

  • אֲדֹנָ֥י[the] Lord

    ʾadonaiH136 →440 times

  • יְהוִֽה׃ פYahweh

    yahwehH3069 →306 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Ezekiel 32:2

    “Son of man, take up a lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: ‘You are like a lion among the nations; you are like a monster in the seas. You thrash…

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 29:3

      Speak to him and tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Pharaoh king of Egypt, O great monster who lies among his rivers, who says,…

    • Nahum 2:11–13

      Where is the lions’ lair or the feeding ground of the young lions, where the lion and lioness prowled with their cubs, with nothing to frighten them away?

    • Ezekiel 27:2

      “Now you, son of man, take up a lament for Tyre.

  • Through

    2 Chronicles 35:25

    Then Jeremiah lamented over Josiah, and to this day all the choirs of men and women sing laments over Josiah. They established them as a statute for Israel, and indeed they are written in…

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 9:17–21

      This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Take note, and summon the wailing women; send for the most skillful among them.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Jeremiah 22:10

      Do not weep for the dead king; do not mourn his loss. Weep bitterly for the one who is exiled, for he will never return to see his native land.

    • Lamentations 4:20

      The LORD’s anointed, the breath of our life, was captured in their pits. We had said of him, “Under his shadow we will live among the nations.”

  • Through

    2 Samuel 1:17

    Then David took up this lament for Saul and his son Jonathan,

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 35:25

      Then Jeremiah lamented over Josiah, and to this day all the choirs of men and women sing laments over Josiah. They established them as a statute for Israel, and indeed they are written in…

  • Through

    Ezekiel 26:17

    Then they will lament for you, saying, “How you have perished, O city of renown inhabited by seafaring men—she who was powerful on the sea, along with her people, who imposed terror on all…

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 14:12

      How you have fallen from heaven, O day star, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O destroyer of nations.

Where this verse is studied

About Ezekiel

Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset and David Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible.