Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.
Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword. Fulfilled when Nebuchadnezzar (God's sword, as was the Assyrian, Isaiah 10:5) conquered Egypt, with which Ethiopia is closely connected as its ally (Jeremiah 46:2-9; Ezekiel 30:5-9).
Ye - literally, they. The third person expresses estrangement: while doomed before God's tribunal in the second person, they are spoken of in the third as aliens from God.