When I blot you out, I will cover the heavens and make their stars dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light.
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.
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Commenting on Ezekiel 32:1-16
And when I shall put thee out,.... As a candle is put out, or some great light or blazing torch is extinguished; such was the king of Egypt in his splendour and glory; but now should be like a lamp put out in obscure darkness, and all his brightness and glory removed from him, Job 18:5, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars...
put thee out--extinguish thy light (Job 18:5). Pharaoh is represented as a bright star, at the extinguishing of whose light in the political sky the whole heavenly host is shrouded in sympathetic darkness. Here, too, as in Eze 32:6, there is an allusion to the supernatural darkness sent formerly (Exo 10:21-23). The heavenly bodies are often made images of earthly dynasties (Isa 13:10; Mat 24:29).