Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 30:12

12 And I will make the rivers dry , and sell the land into the hand of the wicked ; and I will make the land waste, and all that is therein, by the hand of strangers : I the LORD have spoken it.

Either by some extraordinary drought, or rather, by means of that mighty Lake, that, which drew so much water from Nilus, that all their Canals were ever after shallow, and the Lake, as the Oracle foretold, helpt their Enemy, and hurt their Friends: or the Chaldaeans might divert them, and so their Fortified Towns would want one great defence.

God gave it, here he sells; the one is proper, the other a borrowed expression, indeed God seems to pay wages with it. chap. 29. ver. 19, 20. but hereby is intimated, that as Sellers deliver into the hand of the Buyer, so God would deliver Egypt into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar as surely, as if he had bought it, and we may conclude, the Chaldaean as a Buyer, will make the most of all he buyes.

Not of just, and compassionate, but of injurious, and merciless men.

Who leave nothing, they can carry away, eat up, or spoil.

'Tis the Decree, and Edict of Heaven, which can't be broken.

Marginal references: Isa. 19.9▪; Heb. [illegible: 1 word].; Heb. the f[illegible: 2 letters] ness thereof.