This is a lamentation that shall be chanted; the daughters of the nations shall chant it; over Egypt, and over all her multitude, shall they chant it, declares the Lord GOD.”
Here, I. The prophet is ordered to take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, Eze 32:2. It concerns ministers to be much of a serious spirit, and, in order thereunto, to be frequent in taking up lamentations for the fall and ruin of sinners, as those that have not desired, but dreaded, the woeful day.
Commenting on Ezekiel 32:1-16
This is the lamentation with which they shall lament her,.... The Egyptians themselves, or rather they that are after mentioned. The Targum is, "the prophet said, a lamentation is this prophecy, and it shall be for a lamentation;'' he was bid at the beginning of it to take up a lamentation, and now at the end of it he pronounces it to be one, and...
As in Eze 19:14. This is a prophetical lamentation; yet so it shall come to pass [GROTIUS].