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Ezekiel 32:1
英文原文
In the twelfth month - About one year and seven months after the destruction of Jerusalem. In the meantime had occurred the murder of Gedaliah and the flight into Egypt of the Jews left behind by the Chaldaeans Jeremiah 41-43. Jeremiah, who had accompanied them, foretold their ruin Jeremiah 44 in a prophecy probably contemporaneous with the present - the sixth against Egypt, delivered in the form of a dirge Ezekiel 44:2-16.
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Ezekiel 32:2
「你好像……」——更宜譯作「你巴不得像」（他人譯作「你被比作」）少壯獅子。
「你卻如」——與你所想望成為的模樣形成對照。
「大魚」——更宜譯作鱷魚（見欄內註的說明）。法老本應像百獸之王，實際卻不過是海中的怪獸。這裏含有強烈的反諷，因為埃及王正以自己與大鱷魚的相比為榮。
「諸海」——這詞常用以指大河（如尼羅河）的水。
「你在河中打出」——更宜譯作：你如鱷魚從牠所潛入的水中衝出一般，在「你的諸河」中翻騰而出。
英文原文
Thou art like ... - Rather, Thou wouldest be like to (others, "wast likened unto") a young lion.
And thou art - In contrast to what thou wouldest be.
A whale - Rather, crocodile (marginal reference note). Pharaoh should have been like the king of beasts, but he is a mere sea-monster. There is strong irony here, because the Egyptian king was proud of the comparison between himself and the mighty crocodile.
Seas - The word is often used of the waters of a great river, like the Nile.
Thou camest forth with thy rivers - Rather, thou didst burst forth in "thy rivers" as the crocodile does from the water into which he has plunged.
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Ezekiel 32:5
先知的意象從鱷魚轉為被殺之人的屍體堆積在地上。有人將「高處」譯為「污穢」。
英文原文
The prophet passes from the image of the crocodile to that of dead bodies of the slain heaped up on the land. Some render "height," "foulness."
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Ezekiel 32:9
我使你敗亡的日子——即你敗亡的消息傳開之時。這裏提到的種種現象，是「耶和華的日子」（Joel 2:10；Luke 21:25），即審判之日所伴隨的。法老的傾覆，代表世上的權勢在神的主權面前傾覆。
英文原文
When I shall bring thy destruction - i. e., the news of thy destruction. The phenomena here mentioned are the accompaniments of "the day of the Lord" Joel 2:10; Luke 21:25 or the day of judgment. The fall of Pharaoh represents the fall of the world-power before the sovereignty of God.
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Ezekiel 32:14
這是神恩復臨的應許。它所指的不是埃及原有權勢的恢復，而是神的統治者要取代那敵擋神的異教權勢。
英文原文
A promise of a return of God's favor. This concerns not the restoration of Egypt's original power, but the establishment of the Divine Ruler in the place of a pagan God-opposing power.
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Ezekiel 32:16
列國的女子——指異教的列國。
英文原文
Daughters of the nations - Pagan kingdoms.
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Ezekiel 32:17
這是論埃及的第七段預言（Ezekiel 32:17-32），是一首基於 Ezekiel 31:18 的喪葬哀歌。其意象與 Isaiah 14 相同，見該處註釋。在這首哀歌中，特別是向法老發言；列國由其君王代表，君王之軀橫陳墓中，描繪各國的傾覆。
那月——即第十二月（見 Ezekiel 32:1）。
英文原文
The seventh prophecy against Egypt Ezekiel 32:17-32. A funeral dirge founded on Ezekiel 31:18. The figure is the same as in Isaiah 14, where see the notes. In this dirge Pharaoh is especially addressed. The other nations are represented by their kings, the nations' overthrow being depicted by the king's body laid low in the grave.
The month - i. e., the twelfth (see Ezekiel 32:1).
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Ezekiel 32:19
你在美好的事上勝過誰呢？——你並不比別國更美好，也逃不過他們的命運。
英文原文
whom dost thou pass in beauty? - Thou art not more beautiful than other nations: thou shalt not escape their fate.
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Ezekiel 32:20
他被交給刀劍——更確切的譯法是：「刀已出鞘」。要把他如拖去受刑的人一般拖下去。
英文原文
She is delivered to the sword - Rather, the sword is put forth. Draw her down as one dragged to execution.
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Ezekiel 32:21
未受割禮的人——在這首哀歌中，通篇等同於被視為不潔的異教徒（見 Ezekiel 31:18 的註釋）。
英文原文
The uncircumcised - throughout this dirge is equivalent to pagan viewed as impure (Ezekiel 31:18 note).
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Ezekiel 32:22
Jeremiah 25 列舉了將遭迦勒底人怒火肆虐的列國；此處則可見其中耶利米未提名的、已經傾覆的國。亞述指亞述王，如常例代表全國；王被他自己百姓的墳墓環繞。
英文原文
In Jeremiah 25 there is an enumeration of nations destined to be subject to the fury of the Chaldaeans. Here we find those of them who had already fallen not named by Jeremiah. Asshur is the king of Assyria, representing as usual the whole nation. The king is surrounded by the graves of his people.
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Ezekiel 32:24
參看旁註。以攔即希臘人和羅馬人所知、位於波斯與瑪代附近的以利買（Elymais）地區。以攔人是一個兇猛好戰的民族。在亞述巴尼拔的記錄中，他對以攔的最終勝利似乎是他最引以為傲的功績之一。無疑，在亞述勢力衰落之時，以攔再次宣告獨立，卻又被迦勒底征服者再度擊潰。
英文原文
See the marginal referenc. Elam answers to the country known to the Greeks and Romans as Elymais, near Persia and Media. The Elamites were a fierce and warlike people. In the records of Assurbanipal his final triumph over Elam seems to have been one of his proudest boasts. Elam no doubt in the decline of Assyrian power again asserted its independence and was again crushed by the Chaldaean conqueror.
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Ezekiel 32:27
他們不得躺臥——更宜譯作「他們豈沒有躺臥嗎？」或「他們豈沒有被安放嗎？」以刀劍、盾牌或頭盔與勇士同葬——即把這些兵器放在勇士頭下——的習俗廣為人知，且為大多數好戰民族所共有。
然而他們的罪孽……——他們雖安息於戰士葬禮的一切榮耀之中，他們的罪卻跟隨他們進入墳墓。
英文原文
And they shall not lie - Better, "Shall they not lie?" or, "Are they not laid?" The custom of burying warriors with their swords, shields, or helmets, raider their heads is well known, and common to most warlike nations.
But their iniquities ... - They, rested in all the glories of a warrior's sepulture, but their sins followed them to the grave.
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Ezekiel 32:30
北方的眾王子——即巴勒斯坦以北——指推羅人和亞蘭人。
他們因自己的威勢而羞愧——即「當他們的權勢力量令萬人懼怕之時，他們卻被剝去權能，被交在羞辱與混亂之中」。
此處列有六國：亞述、以攔、米設、土巴、以東、西頓，加上埃及共為七國（見 Ezekiel 25:1 的註釋）。這段包含針對異教各國預言的部分，以這幅眾王下到墳墓的描寫作結，與整段的一般主旨相符——即宣告世上一切權勢都必被除滅，為神的國開路。
英文原文
The princes of the north - i. e., north of Palestine - The Tyrians and the Syrians.
With their terror they are ashamed of their might - i. e., "When their might and power were terrible to all, they were shorn of their power and delivered over to shame and confusion." There are here six nations, Asshur, Elam, Meshech, Tubal, Edom, Zidon, which added to Egypt make up seven (see the Ezekiel 25:1 note). The section which contains the prophecies against the pagan, closing with this description of the kings who had gone down to the grave, accords with the general purport of the whole section, namely,: the declaration that all the powers of the world shall be annihilated to make way for the kingdom of God.
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Ezekiel 32:31
得了安慰——因為知道自己的毀滅與世上一切權勢的命運並無不同。
英文原文
Comforted - By the knowledge that his ruin is no more than that of every world-power.
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Ezekiel 32:32
我使他恐怖——更宜譯作「他的恐怖」，即他本人所引致的恐怖。
活人之地——即神子民之地。使法老成為祂子民所懼怕的，乃是耶和華；如今時候到了，法老傾倒，被安放……
英文原文
My terror - Better "his terror," the terror caused by him.
The land of the living - The land of God's people. It was Yahweh who caused Pharaoh to be terrible to His people, and now, when the time is come, Pharaoh is fallen, and he is laid etc.
第十二個月——約在耶路撒冷被毀之後一年零七個月。其間發生了基大利被殺、以及迦勒底人所留下的猶太人逃往埃及的事（Jeremiah 41-43）。與他們同行的耶利米，在一篇大概與本篇同時的預言中，預告了他們的毀滅（Jeremiah 44）。這是針對埃及的第六篇預言，以哀歌的形式傳講（Ezekiel 44:2-16）。