Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 30:3

3 For the day is near , even the day of the LORD is near , a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen .

The time of such distresses, as never the like known by you.

It will begin in your overthrow in the Cyreniac, and Libyc deserts in very little time, next 'twill continue in your Civil war, and finally end in the Babylonish Conquest some two years, and you shall be miserably routed in the deserts of Libya, immediately after the Civil War for eleven years together shall waste you, and then Nebuchadnezzar's Forces will be upon you, so that, whereas there may be about 16 or 18 years between the Prophesie, and its fulfilling, here is 13 or 14 of them taken up with sorrows, and afflictions, fore-runners of the last.

Of the Lords sore displeasure against Egypt, and its Allies.

Within two years, as is said.

A dark day, so times of trouble are called, whereas prosperity is a day of light. Troubles like storms, violent storms are black.

Of the Egyptians to be wasted, and of the Babylonians to waste them, the day of the pride, cruelty, and revenges to the one, the day of falling, spoil, and destruction to the other.