New Living Translation
Ezekiel 30:8
8And the people of Egypt will know that I am the Lord when I have set Egypt on fire and destroyed all their allies.
Ezekiel 30:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and when all her helpers shall be destroyed.
- New International Version (NIV)Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I set fire to Egypt and all her helpers are crushed.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I have set fire to Egypt, and all her helpers are broken.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Then they will know that I am the Lord, When I have set a fire in Egypt And all her helpers are destroyed.
Context of Ezekiel 30:8
6“For this is what the Lord says: All of Egypt’s allies will fall, and the pride of her power will end. From Migdol to Aswan they will be slaughtered by the sword, says the Sovereign Lord. 7Egypt will be desolate, surrounded by desolate nations, and its cities will be in ruins, surrounded by other ruined cities. And the people of Egypt will know that I am the Lord when I have set Egypt on fire and destroyed all their allies. 9At that time I will send swift messengers in ships to terrify the complacent Ethiopians. Great panic will come upon them on that day of Egypt’s certain destruction. Watch for it! It is sure to come! 10“For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: By the power of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, I will destroy the hordes of Egypt.
Read all of Ezekiel 30Ezekiel 30:8 word by word
וְיָדְע֖וּ כִּֽי־אֲנִ֣י יְהוָ֑ה בְּתִתִּי־אֵ֣שׁ בְּמִצְרַ֔יִם וְנִשְׁבְּר֖וּ כָּל־עֹזְרֶֽיהָ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Ezekiel 30:8
- Ezekiel 28:24No longer will Israel’s scornful neighbors prick and tear at her like briers and thorns. For then they will know that I am the Sovereign Lord.
- Ezekiel 29:6All the people of Egypt will know that I am the Lord, for to Israel you were just a staff made of reeds.
- Psalms 58:11Then at last everyone will say, “There truly is a reward for those who live for God; surely there is a God who judges justly here on earth.”
- Ezekiel 30:14I will destroy southern Egypt, set fire to Zoan, and bring judgment against Thebes.
- Ezekiel 22:31So now I will pour out my fury on them, consuming them with the fire of my anger. I will heap on their heads the full penalty for all their sins. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken!”
- Deuteronomy 32:22For my anger blazes forth like fire and burns to the depths of the grave. It devours the earth and all its crops and ignites the foundations of the mountains.
- Isaiah 42:25Therefore, he poured out his fury on them and destroyed them in battle. They were enveloped in flames, but they still refused to understand. They were consumed by fire, but they did not learn their lesson.
- Lamentations 4:11But now the anger of the Lord is satisfied. His fierce anger has been poured out. He started a fire in Jerusalem that burned the city to its foundations.
- Amos 1:4So I will send down fire on King Hazael’s palace, and the fortresses of King Ben-hadad will be destroyed.
- Amos 2:2So I will send down fire on the land of Moab, and all the fortresses in Kerioth will be destroyed. The people will fall in the noise of battle, as the warriors shout and the ram’s horn sounds.
- Nahum 1:5In his presence the mountains quake, and the hills melt away; the earth trembles, and its people are destroyed.
- Ezekiel 30:6“For this is what the Lord says: All of Egypt’s allies will fall, and the pride of her power will end. From Migdol to Aswan they will be slaughtered by the sword, says the Sovereign Lord.
Commentaries on Ezekiel 30:8
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-19This third message against Egypt is written as a lament (a poem of sorrow). It repeats much of the earlier message in Ezekiel 29:1–16. God would judge Egypt and its allies. The nation would fall under his judgment.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-26Two distinct messages: (1) At Eze 30:1-19, a repetition of Eze 29:1-16, with fuller details of lifelike distinctness. The date is probably not long after that mentioned in Eze 29:17, on the eve of Nebuchadnezzar's march against Egypt after subjugating Tyre. (2) A vision relating directly to Pharaoh and the overthrow of his kingdom; communicated at an earlier date, the seventh of the first month of the eleventh year. Not a year after the date in Eze 29:1…Read the comment
Topics related to Ezekiel 30:8
In the dictionaries
Commentaries on Ezekiel 30
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
New Living Translation — © 1996, 2004, 2015 Tyndale House Foundation
Commentaries