Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 32:1-2
‘And so it was that in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first day of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me saying, “Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and say to him: “You were likened to a young lion among the nations, Yet you are as a monster in the seas. And you burst forth on your rivers, And you trouble the waters with your feet, and foul their rivers. ‘The word of Yahweh came to me saying.’ This introduces every oracle. No prophet is quite... read more
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 32:1-32
The sixth prophecy followed the fifth after an interval of nearly two years, but was closely associated with it, in that it consisted of a lamentation for Pharaoh whose doom was first described as the taking of a dragon in the seas and casting him forth on the land. The effect of this downfall would be widespread, bringing desolation to his own land, supplying booty to other lands, and making men everywhere tremble in the presence of the judgment of Jehovah. This prophecy was uttered almost... read more