Thursday, July 25, 2024

Ezekiel 32: Egypt will go to the grave of the heathen

 We read:

17-19 In the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the first month, God’s Message came to me:
“Son of man, lament over Egypt’s pompous ways.
    Send her on her way.
Dispatch Egypt
    and her proud daughter nations
To the underworld,
    down to the country of the dead and buried.
Say, ‘You think you’re so high and mighty?
    Down! Take your place with the heathen in that unhallowed grave!’
20-21 “She’ll be dumped in with those killed in battle. The sword is bared. Drag her off in all her proud pomp! All the big men and their helpers down among the dead and buried will greet them: ‘Welcome to the grave of the heathen! Join the ranks of the victims of war!’

This grave is the destiny of the heathen, of the people that has no sign of the alliance. The text mentions: Assyria, Elam, Meshech-tubal and Edom. 

They were powerful. We read:

30 “The princes of the north are there, the whole lot of them, and all the Sidonians who carry their shame to their graves—all that terror they spread with their brute power!—dumped in unhallowed ground with those killed in battle, carrying their shame with the others headed for deep earth.

I suffered bullying when young. It is interesting to think that the ones who spread terror die and carry their shame to their graves. 

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