Isaiah 19:16 - Exposition

In that day ; or, at that time ; i.e. when the Assyrian invasion comes. Shall Egypt be like unto women (comp. Jeremiah 51:30 ). So Xerxes said of his fighting men at Salamis: "My men have become women" (Herod; 8.88). Because of the shaking of the hand of the Lord (comp. Isaiah 11:15 and Isaiah 30:32 ). The Egyptians would scarcely recognize Jehovah as the Author of their calamities, but it would none the less be his hand which punished them.