Ezekiel 32:2
Son of man, make a song of grief for Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and say to him, Young lion of the nations, destruction has come on you; and you were like a sea-beast in the seas, sending out bursts of water, troubling the waters with your feet, making their streams dirty.
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Numbers 24:9He took his sleep stretched out like a lion, and like a she-lion: by whom will his rest be broken? May a blessing be on everyone who gives you blessing, and a curse on everyone by whom you are cursed.
Psalms 74:13The sea was parted in two by your strength; the heads of the great sea-beasts were broken.
Proverbs 30:30The lion, which is strongest among beasts, not turning from his way for any;
Isaiah 51:9Awake! awake! put on strength, O arm of the Lord, awake! as in the old days, in the generations long past. Was it not by you that Rahab was cut in two, and the dragon Wounded?
Jeremiah 9:18Let them quickly make cries of sorrow for us, so that drops may be flowing from our eyes till they are streaming with water.
Ezekiel 19:1Take up now a song of grief for the ruler of Israel, and say,
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 32:2-17
The Fall of Egypt; Lamentation for Pharaoh. ( b. c. 587.) 1 And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers. 3 Thus saith the Lord God ; I will therefore… Read the whole commentary →