Ezekiel 32:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

This heavy, mournful, and sad account, which the prophet hath given of the state of Egypt, is the lamentation, the funeral speech of this kingdom; for this, as a funeral oration, tells us what was their ancient glory, and what is now their miserable reproach and loss. They shall lament; her friends, or the Egyptians themselves rather. The daughters of the nations: this may be expository of the former, and tell us who they are that shall lament Egypt, the provinces and cities of their neighbouring nations; or literally, the daughters, the tender-hearted virgins and women abroad. Even for Egypt; ruined Egypt. All her multitude; the common people, many of whom suffered for what they could not prevent; a sort of people that were fitter to be pitied and spared, than to be robbed and slain, a sort of people none but unrelenting hearts could be harsh to or hasty with.