I have given him the land of Egypt as the reward for his labor, because it was done for Me, declares the Lord GOD.
The date of this prophecy is observable; it was in the twenty-seventh year of Ezekiel's captivity, sixteen years after the prophecy in the former part of the chapter, and almost as long after those which follow in the next chapters; but it comes in here for the explication of all that was said against Egypt.
Commenting on Ezekiel 29:17-21
I have given him the land of Egypt for labour wherewith he served against it, That is, against Tyre; meaning not Nebuchadnezzar merely or only, but his army also, who did the main of the service and labour, and had the plunder of the country for it; though the kingdom itself was given to their king, and annexed to his monarchy: because they wrought for...
because they wrought for me--the Chaldeans, fulfilling My will as to Tyre (compare Jer 25:9).