For the day is near, the day of the LORD is near; it will be a day of clouds, a time of doom for the nations.
When God comes forth to contend with a provoking people, what can shield them? Egypt shall wail and shriek, for the day of the Lord, dark, terrible, a day of reckoning with all heathen nations, approaches swiftly. The sword of the Chaldeans will come; cities that seemed strong will crumble when their foundations are broken down.
AI summary
Commenting on Ezekiel 30:1-19
For the day is near,.... The day of Egypt's destruction, the time fixed for it: even the day of the Lord is near; the day appointed by him, and in which he would make himself known by the judgments he executed: Kimchi observes, that, the same year this prophecy was delivered, Egypt was given into the hands of the king of Babylon: a cloudy day...
the time of the heathen--namely, for taking vengeance on them. The judgment on Egypt is the beginning of a world-wide judgment on all the heathen enemies of God (Joe 1:15; Joe 2:1-2; Joel 3:1-21; Oba 1:15).