Ezekiel 30:24
And strengthened the arms of the king of Babylon, And I have given My sword into his hand, And I have broken the arms of Pharaoh, And he hath groaned the groans of a pierced one — before him.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
23And scattered the Egyptians among nations, And I have spread them through lands,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:41If I have sharpened the brightness of My sword, And My hand doth lay hold on judgment, I turn back vengeance to Mine adversaries, And to those hating Me — I repay!
Job 24:12Because of enmity men do groan, And the soul of pierced ones doth cry, And God doth not give praise.
Psalms 18:32God! who is girding me [with] strength, And He maketh perfect my way.
Psalms 144:1By David. Blessed [is] Jehovah my rock, who is teaching My hands for war, my fingers for battle.
Isaiah 10:15— Doth the axe glorify itself Against him who is hewing with it? Doth the saw magnify itself Against him who is shaking it? As a rod waving those lifting it up! As a staff lifting up that which is not wood!
Isaiah 45:5I [am] Jehovah, and there is none else, Except Me there is no God, I gird thee, and thou hast not known Me.
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 30:21-26
Destruction of Egypt Foretold. ( b. c. 572.) 20 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, in the seventh day of the month, that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 21 Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, to put a roller to bind it, to make it strong to hold the sword. 22 Therefore thus saith the Lord God ; Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong, and that which was broken; and I… Read the whole commentary →