And the sword shall come upon Egypt, and great pain shall be in Ethiopia, when the slain shall fall in Egypt, and they shall take away her multitude, and her foundations shall be broken down.
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.
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Commenting on Ezekiel 30:1-19
The Chaldean sword shall cut off the Egyptians by commission of the Lord. Ethiopia, their ally and neighbor, will be seized with panic, fearing their own turn next. The enemy will carry captive all who escape the blade, and demolish the very foundations, king, princes, magistrates, laws, that hold a state together.
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pain--literally, "pangs with trembling as of a woman in childbirth."