TAWG - August 17, 2024 - Ezekiel 31:1-18
August 17, 2024

Ezekiel 31:1-18

31:1-3 | Ezekiel delivered this poem-prophecy about two months after his previous prediction regarding Egypt’s fall. Ezekiel declares that Egypt would never recover and regain its lost glory, comparing it to Assyria, which in 612 BC had fallen to Babylon, never to rise again. If God could humble Assyria in all its might and pride, He certainly could (and would) do the same with Egypt.

31:12 | The prophet describes the Babylonians as aliens, the most terrible of the nations. Despite Assyria’s vast military power and its universally feared ruthlessness, it could not stand against the assault of the young Babylonian empire.

31:18 | Egypt’s kings had fashioned for themselves elaborate funeral rituals, stone monuments, and pyramids – and yet when the time for God’s judgment came, despised foreigners would slay them by the sword and throw their dead bodies aside like refuse, without a proper burial.