Ezekiel 32

Ezekiel 32:2-10

Pharaoh is full of cruelty and violence to the nations around; and, with his great armies, disturbs their peace and spoils their country. But I will quickly conduct thee to Cyrene, where the bulk of thine army shall be destroyed and be unburied. After which, Egypt itself, by inter- 11 tine wars, and by the invasion of the Chaldeans, shall be a scene of bloodshed and confusion: all ranks, king, queen, nobles, magistrates, and commons, any, the most understanding persons of the nation, shall be disgraced, confounded, and ruined, to the terror of the countries around

REFLECTIONS UPON CHAP. XXXII.—Ministers must weep and tremble at words of God, that they may affect others therewith. Alas, how the restless that on and implacable resentment of proud princes disturb the world! But the brandished sword of God’s judgments shall at last overwhelm them with consternation, terror, and ruin. Hardened sinners often fret and murmur under God’s tremendous threatenings, instead of humbling themselves. And they, who with complacency admired the pomp of this world, with terrible astonishment behold its ruin. The mighty nations who delighted in war, shall find enough fit at last. And no multitudes, wealth or power, can avail, either to withstand the wrath or to move the pity of God. After all the noise and pomp of men can bring them down to the most mean and abject appearances. Alas’ dreadful devourers are sin and death! Yea, the terrors of God shall prevail when those of men are for ever subdued. Awful indeed will be that assembly the dead, small and great, shall stand before him