Text -- Ezekiel 32:1-5 (NET)

Lamentation over Pharaoh and Egypt

32:1 In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first of the month, the word of the Lord came to me: 32:2 “Son of man, sing a lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him: “‘You were like a lion among the nations, but you are a monster in the seas; you thrash about in your streams, stir up the water with your feet, and muddy your streams. 32:3 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: “‘I will throw my net over you in the assembly of many peoples; and they will haul you up in my dragnet. 32:4 I will leave you on the ground, I will fling you on the open field, I will allow all the birds of the sky to settle on you, and I will permit all the wild animals to gorge themselves on you. 32:5 I will put your flesh on the mountains, and fill the valleys with your maggot-infested carcass.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Eze 32:1

¹ sn This would be March 3, 585 b.c.

NET Notes: Eze 32:2

¹ tn The lion was a figure of royalty (Ezek 19:1-9).

² tc The Hebrew reads “their streams”; the LXX reads “your streams.”

NET Notes: Eze 32:3

¹ tn The expression “throw my net” is common in Ezekiel (12:13; 17:20; 19:8).

NET Notes: Eze 32:4

¹ tn Or “cause.”

² tn Heb “live.”

³ tn Or “cause.”

⁴ tn Heb “the beasts of the field,” referring to wild as opposed to domesticated animals.

NET Notes: Eze 32:5

¹ tc The Hebrew text is difficult here, apparently meaning “your height.” Following Symmachus and the Syriac, it is preferable to emend the text to read “your maggots.” See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:203.