Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.
God sets this prophecy against Egypt at the very moment when the Egyptians were tempting the Jews to rely on them instead of the Lord. Mark the mercy in it: He lets us foresee the failure of every earthly prop just when we are most prone to lean on it, so we may cease from man and trust only in Him.
AI summary
Commenting on Ezekiel 29:1-7
The Lord God who speaks here is the only living and true Almighty; the gods of Egypt were nothing. Though Pharaoh stands high above other men and exalts himself as a god, the Lord is higher still, against him utterly. He lies like a crocodile in his rivers, at ease in his power and pleasures, boasting that the Nile is his own making, when he merely inherited the channels his fathers had cut.
AI summary
dragon--Hebrew, tanim, any large aquatic animal, here the crocodile, which on Roman coins is the emblem of Egypt. lieth--restest proudly secure. his rivers--the mouths, branches, and canals of the Nile, to which Egypt owed its fertility.