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Therefore, for thy atheistical pride, and thy perfidious mischief to the house of Israel, and other thy sins,
I will bring a sword upon thee; war, and the effects of it. First, a civil war arose against this king Hophra, who, weak and contemned, and fallen under the jealousies and disgusts of his subjects after his overthrow in the deserts of Libya and Cyrene, was again overthrown by his rebel subjects in a bloody battle at Memphis, was taken in his flight towards Sain, his royal seat, and some time after strangled by the enraged rout. The next sword, brought on Hophra’s successor, and on the land of Egypt, was the sword of Nebuchadnezzar, in the same year after the overthrow of Tyre; the civil war of Egypt inviting him to take the occasion, and some few requests, it is likely, from the rebellious to assist them.
Cut off man, by the sword in battle and sieges, and by famine.
And beast; eaten up by a numerous army invading and prevailing, and which will drive away what they eat not. The same phrase you have Eze_14:13,17.