14 Then I will let her waters settle and make her streams flow like oil, declares the Sovereign Lord.
14 Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord GOD.
14 Then I will make their waters clear, and cause their rivers to run like oil, declares the Lord GOD.
14 I'll clear their springs and streams, make their rivers flow clean and smooth. Decree of God, the Master.
14 Then I will make their waters clear, And make their rivers run like oil,' Says the Lord God.
14 Then I will let the waters of Egypt become calm again, and they will flow as smoothly as olive oil, says the Sovereign Lord .
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Ezekiel 32:14
Commentary on Ezekiel 32:1-16
(Read Ezekiel 32:1-16)
It becomes us to weep and tremble for those who will not weep and tremble for themselves. Great oppressors are, in God's account, no better than beasts of prey. Those who admire the pomp of this world, will wonder at the ruin of that pomp; which to those who know the vanity of all things here below, is no surprise. When others are ruined by sin, we have to fear, knowing ourselves guilty. The instruments of the desolation are formidable. And the instances of the desolation are frightful. The waters of Egypt shall run like oil, which signifies there should be universal sadness and heaviness upon the whole nation. God can soon empty those of this world's goods who have the greatest fulness of them. By enlarging the matters of our joy, we increase the occasions of our sorrow. How weak and helpless, as to God, are the most powerful of mankind! The destruction of Egypt was a type of the destruction of the enemies of Christ.