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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ezekiel 29:4 - 29:4
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hooks in thy jaws - (Isa 37:29; compare Job 41:1, Job 41:2). Amasis was the “hook.” In the Assyrian sculptures prisoners are represented with a hook in the underlip, and a cord from it held by the king.
cause ... fish ... stick unto ... scales - Pharaoh, presuming on his power as if he were God (Eze 29:3, “I have made it”), wished to stand in the stead of God as defender of the covenant-people, his motive being, not love to them, but rivalry with Babylon. He raised the siege of Jerusalem, but it was only for a time (compare Eze 29:6; Jer 37:5, Jer 37:7-10); ruin overtook not only them, but himself. As the fish that clung to the horny scales of the crocodile, the lord of the Nile, when he was caught, shared his fate, so the adherents of Pharaoh, lord of Egypt, when he was overthrown by Amasis, should share his fate.