30:14 I will desolate Pathros,
I will ignite a fire in Zoan,
and I will execute judgments on Thebes.
30:15 I will pour out my anger upon Pelusium, 1
the stronghold of Egypt;
I will cut off 2 the hordes of Thebes.
30:17 The young men of On and of Pi-beseth 3 will die by the sword;
and the cities will go 4 into captivity.
32:5 I will put your flesh on the mountains,
and fill the valleys with your maggot-infested carcass. 5
1 tn Heb “Sin” (so KJV, NASB), a city commonly identified with Pelusium, a fortress on Egypt’s northeastern frontier.
2 tn Or “kill.”
1 sn On and Pi-beseth are generally identified with the Egyptian cities of Heliopolis and Bubastis.
2 tn Heb “they will go.” The pronoun and verb are feminine plural, indicating that the cities just mentioned are the antecedent of the pronoun and the subject of the verb. The translation makes this clear by stating the subject as “the cities.”
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.
1 tn Heb “stand.”