Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
Shall not the land tremble for this ... and it shall rise up wholly as a flood. But I prefer Maurer's view. Literally, 'as the river' [kaa'or, the Egyptian name for the Nile, or one of its canals]. The land will, as it were, be wholly turned into a flooding river-a flood being the image of overwhelming calamity (Daniel 9:26, "The end thereof (of the city and the sanctuary) shall be with a flood").
And it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt - it shall be swept away and overwhelmed, as the land adjoining the Nile is by it when flooding. The same image and words are used in Amos 9:5. The Nile rises generally twenty feet. The waters then "cast out" mire and dirt (Isaiah 57:20).