Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 29:9

9 And the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste, and they shall know that I am the LORD; because he hath said, The river is mine, and I have made it.

That part here intended, say some, and in the 10th verse bounded from Syene to the Borders of Aethiopia, nor is this inconsistent with that ver. 2. against all Egypt, for all Egypt suffered much, though all were not equally wasted, and turned into a desolation, as these parts shall be

A Desolation, i. e. most desolate, and wastness by the Sword of the Enemie, and by drought, as the word imports both, and this latter part of the Judgment was executed by the folly of the 12 Egyptian [illegible: 1 letter]oitelets, who made a mighty Lake Maeris, to fill which they much drained and weakned Nilus that it could not as before it did, water, and fertilize the Land sutable to Isa 19.5.

See ver. 3. let. n. o. p. q. r.

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