|Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary| 19:1-17 God shall come into
Egypt with his judgments. He will raise up the causes of their
destruction from among themselves. When ungodly men escape
danger, they are apt to think themselves secure; but evil
pursues sinners, and will speedily overtake them, except they
repent. The Egyptians will be given over into the hand of one
who shall rule them with rigour, as was shortly after fulfilled.
The Egyptians were renowned for wisdom and science; yet the Lord
would give them up to their own perverse schemes, and to
quarrel, till their land would be brought by their contests to
become an object of contempt and pity. He renders sinners afraid
of those whom they have despised and oppressed; and the Lord of
hosts will make the workers of iniquity a terror to themselves,
and to each other; and every object around a terror to them.
Verse 8. - The fishers also shall mourn. The fisherman's trade
was extensively practiced in ancient Egypt, and anything which
interfered with it would