As at the report concerning Egypt, so shall they be sorely pained at the report of Tyre.
As at the report concerning Egypt, (so) shall they be sorely pained at the report of Tyre - rather, 'When the report (namely, concerning Tyre) (shall reach) the people of Egypt, they shall be sorely pained at the report concerning Tyre' (namely, its overthrow). So Jerome 'When the Egyptians shall hear that so powerful a neighbouring nation has been destroyed, they must know their own end is near.' So the Septuagint, Vulgate, and Arabic, (Lowth, etc.) The sense of the English version is, As the neighbouring peoples shall be sorely pained at the report of Egypt's disaster, so shall they be at the report of Tyre's. But Tyre's disaster came before that of Egypt, not after it. Ezekiel 29:18-20 translates, therefore, as Jerome above. The disaster was to be to Tyre and Egypt in common: both were enemies of the covenant people-Egypt avowedly; Tyre secretly (Calvin).