Ezekiel 32:16 - Exposition

This is the lamentation , etc. The work of mourning for the dead was for the most part assigned to women ( 2 Samuel 1:24 ; Jeremiah 9:17 ; 2 Chronicles 35:25 ), and is therefore appropriately assigned to the daughters of the nations . He hears, as it were, their wailing over the fallen greatness of Egypt, even in the solitude of Tel-Abib.