And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I [am] the LORD, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.
Ver. 6. And all the inhabitants, &c.] Shall feel my power in their just destruction, though they think themselves insuperable.
Because they have been a staff of reed.] See this fully expounded in the next words; see also on Isaiah 36:6 Jeremiah 37:7,8. Egypt was a reedy country; as Pliny a telleth us, Arando autem ipsa per se fluctuat, et in necessitate eludit.
a Lib. xiii. cap. 11.