5And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.
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Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be an help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.
Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours;
And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the LORD, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)God here, as King of nations, brings a sore calamity upon Egypt and Ethiopia, but, as King of saints, brings good to his people out of it. Observe, I. The date of this prophecy. It was in the year that Ashdod, a strong city of the Philistines (but which some think was lately recovered from them by Hezekiah, when he smote the Philistines even unto Gaza, 2 Kgs. 18:8), was besieged and taken by an ar…
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