And I will leave thee thrown into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open fields; thou shalt not be brought together, nor gathered: I have given thee for meat to the beasts of the field and to the fowls of the heaven.
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.
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Commenting on Ezekiel 29:1-7
Pharaoh's army, not the king himself, fell in those Libyan fields and lay unburied, a feast for beasts and birds. The soldiers perished so utterly scattered that they could not even be gathered for proper burial, leaving their carcasses to rot as God said.
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Egypt pursued Israel into the wilderness crying that the wilderness had shut them in; now Egypt herself shall be cast into a wilderness state. God renders judgment in kind: the army routed in those deserts cannot be rallied or brought together again, just as a captured crocodile cannot be restored to the river.
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