Verse 19
"This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations that go not up to keep the feast of tabernacles."
"Punishment of all the nations ..." By this, the prophet makes it clear that the word "Egypt" was used as a "type" of all the peoples of the earth who forget God and heed not his mercies. It was an especially appropriate type, because it had been Egypt which reduced the people of God to slavery, committed genocide against them, and subjected them to cruel and inhumane treatment. Also, Egypt was the first head of the great Seven-headed Scarlet Beast symbolizing the opposition of an evil world to the will of God (Revelation 13). Another good reason lay in the fact that Egypt was not particularly dependent upon ordinary rain, as the Nile river was the source of its agricultural life. This compels a metaphorical understanding of "rain."
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