Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 29:8

8 ¶ Therefore, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring a sword upon thee, and cut off man and beast out of thee.

For thy Atheistical Pride, and thy perfidious mischief to the House of Israel, and other thy sins.

War, and the effects of it. First, a Civil war arose against this King Hophra, who weak, and contemned, and fallen under the jealousies, and disgusts of his Subjects after his overthrow in the De[illegible: 1 letter]erts of Libya, and Cyrene was again overthrown by his Rebel Subjects in a bloody Battel at Memphis, was taken in his [illegible: 1 letter]light towards Sain his Royal Seat, and sometime after strangled by the enraged rout. The next Sword brought on Hophra's Successor, and on the Land of Egypt was the Sword of Nebuchadnezzar in the same year after the overthrow of Tyrus, the Civil War of Egypt inviting him to take the occasion, and some few requests, 'tis likely from the Rebellious to assist them.

By the Sword in Battle, and Sieges, and by Famine.

Eaten up by a numerous Army invading, and prevailing, and which will drive away what they eat not. The same phrase you have chap. 14. ver. 12. let. z. and ver. 17. let. r.