“Son of man, raise a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: “You consider yourself a lion of the nations, but you are like a dragon in the seas; you burst forth in your rivers, trouble the waters with your feet, and foul their rivers.
Ministers must weep for those who will not weep for themselves, and tremble for those too proud to tremble. Pharaoh roars like a young lion, turbulent and vexatious as the leviathan, troubling his own kingdom and every nation round him with restless ambition and resentment. Such potentates are beasts of prey in God's reckoning, and those who trouble others must expect to be troubled themselves, for the Lord is righteous.
AI summary
Commenting on Ezekiel 32:1-16
Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt,.... Pharaohhophra, or Apries; say a funeral dirge for him; this is ordered, not out of honour and respect to him, or in compassion for his misery and ruin, but to assure him of it: and say unto him, thou art like a young lion of the nations; for strength and fierceness, for cruelty...
Pharaoh--"Phra" in Burmah, signifies the king, high priest, and idol. whale--rather, any monster of the waters; here, the crocodile of the Nile. Pharaoh is as a lion on dry land, a crocodile in the waters; that is, an object of terror everywhere. camest forth with thy rivers--"breakest forth" [FAIRBAIRN].