Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 32:14

Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord GOD.

14. The waters of Egypt, no more troubled by the foot of man or beast, shall run smooth like oil.

make their waters deep ] Rather: make to settle, become clear; cf. noun, Eze 34:18. No more trampled they shall settle and run smooth.

Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

A promise of a return of Gods favor. This concerns not the restoration of Egypts original power, but the establishment of the Divine Ruler in the place of a pagan God-opposing power.

Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible

Verse 14. Cause their rivers to run like oil] Bring the whole state into quietness, there being no longer a political hippopotamus to foul the waters-to disturb the peace of the country.

Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible

Make their waters deep: the sense literally this, the waters undisturbed shall be clear, the mud settled at the bottom, and the waters above it of good depth.

To run like oil; smooth and softly, as oil glides along, which will be when neither men nor cattle disturb the rivers: but figuratively, waters and rivers are people and nations, and those near to, and once disturbed, and put into confusion by Egypt, at whose fall all those troubles shall cease, the people shall settle in quiet state, and affairs shall, like a quieted river, run smoothly and in great peace.

Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole

14. make their waters deeprather,”make . . . to subside“; literally, “sink”[FAIRBAIRN].

like oilemblem ofquietness. No longer shall they descend violently on othercountries as the overflowing Nile, but shall be still and sluggish inpolitical action.

Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Then will l make their waters deep,…. Either the water, of Egypt literally, the waters of the Nile: no canals being cut from it, to carry the water to the several parts of the land, the land being depopulated, and no business done: or, figuratively, other nations, compared to waters for their numbers, who before had been disturbed by the Egyptians; but now they being destroyed, these would be at ease, like troubled waters, which subside, and: become deep and clear, when there is none to trouble them:

and cause their, rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord God; very slowly, as if, they were mourning the unhappy condition of the land; or smoothly, clearly, undisturbed, as before. The Targum is,

“there will I cause the people to rest, and I will lead their kings quietly, saith the Lord God.”

Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

(14) Deep should rather be rendered quiet. When the restless ambition of Egypt should be curbed, there would come about peace and quiet prosperity. This is thought by many to be a glance forward at the Messianic blessing of the future; but it does not necessarily look so far.

Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)

Eze 32:14. Then will I make, &c. Then will I make their waters to rest, or subside, and cause their rivers to glide smoothly like oil, &c.

Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke

Eze 32:14 Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord GOD.

Ver. 14. Then will I make their waters deep. ] There shall not be men left to drive them by ditches and channels into their grounds and pastures, for the making of them fruitful.

And cause their rivers to run like oil, ] i.e., Smoothly and silently.

“ Lene fluit Nilus, sed cunctis amnibus extat

Utilior, nullas confessus murmure vires. ”

– Claudian.

Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)