Ezekiel 32

^{1 a} Which was the first yere of the general captiuitie vnder Zedekiah.

^{2 b} Thus the scriptures compare tyrants to cruel and huge beastes which deuoure all that be weaker then they, and suche as they ouercome.

^{2 c} Thou preparedst great armies.

^{2 !} The Prophet is commanded to bewaile Pharaoh King of Egypt.

^{5 d} With heapes of the carkeises of thine armie.

^{6 e} As Nilus ouerfloweth Egypt, so wil make the blod of thine hoste to ouerflowe it.

^{7 f} The worde signifieth to be put out as a candel is put out.

^{8 g} By this maner of speache is ment the great sorowe that shalbe for the slaughter of the King & his people.

^{12 h} This came to passe in less then foure yeres after this prophecie.

^{12 !} He prophecieth that destruction shal come vnto Egypt through the King of Babylon.

^{14 i} To wit, of the Caldeans thine enemies, which shal quietly enjoy all thy commodities.

^{18 k} That is, prophecie, that htey shal be cast downe: thus the Lord giueth his Prophetes power bothe to plant and to destroy by his worde, read {Jere, 1,10}.

^{19 l} Haue not other kingdoms, more beautiful then thou, perished?

^{20 m} That is, Egypt.

^{21 n} To make the matter more sensible, he bringeth in Pharaoh, whome the dead shal mete & marueile at him, read ???

^{24 p} Whome in this life all the worlde feared.

^{24 o} Meaning, the Persians.

^{26 q} That is, the Cappadocians & Italians, or Spanyardes, as Josephns writeth.

^{27 r} Which dyed not by cruel death, but by the course of nature and are nonorably buryed with their cote armour and signes of nonour.

^{29 /} Or, whale.

^{30 s} The Kings of Babylon.

^{31 t} As the wicked rejoyce when they se others partakers of their miseries.

^{32 u} I wil make the Ebyptians afraid of me, as thei caused others to seake them.