Ezekiel 32:19 - Exposition

Whom dost thou pass in beauty ? The lamentation, as might be expected from Ezekiel's standpoint, is an illustration of irony and triumph rather than of sorrow. The question implies a negative answer. Glorious as Egypt had been, other nations had equaled her. They had passed away, and so should she. With the uncircumcised . The words, as in Ezekiel 31:18 , suggest the thought that Israel, so far as it was faithful to its calling, circumcised in heart as well as flesh ( Jeremiah 9:26 ), had a higher and happier dwelling in Hades than the uncircumcised heathen. As the Egyptians practiced circumcision, the language of the prophet had a special significance. Their place in Hades was among the heathen to whom that hereto was unknown.