What Does Ezekiel 29:9 Mean?

to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)

“And the land”

the earth (at large, or partitively a land)

“of Egypt”

mitsrajim, i.e., upper and lower egypt

“shall be desolate”

devastation; figuratively, astonishment

“and waste”

properly, drought, i.e., (by implication) a desolation

“and they shall know”

to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including o

(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed

i

“that I am the LORD”

(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god

properly, heed; by implication, purpose (sake or account); used adverbially to indicate the reason or cause

“because he hath said”

to say (used with great latitude)

“The river”

a channel, e.g., a fosse, canal, shaft; specifically the nile, as the one river of egypt, including its collateral trenches; also the tigris, as the m

i

“is mine and I have made”

to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application