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154            NOTES  ON  EZEKIEL.
           In verse 14 it does not mean “ deep,”  as I conceive; but
          the waters were to sink or subside and so  become clear,
          with which agrees the rivers flowing like oil, instead of
          being  turbid as  of  old  by  the  demands of  commerce.
          How  manifest  Jehovah’s  hand!  Egypt  itself  should
          know that it was He.
             In the latter half  the  dirge, a fortnight after, is still
          more profound, as unveiling the unseen world, the most
          solemn  elegy  over  a  heathen  people  ever  composed.
          <c And it came to  pass also  in  the twelfth  year, in the
          fifteenth  day of  the  month, that  the  word  of Jehovah
          came unto me, saying,  Son of man, wail  for the multi­
          tude of  Egypt, and cast them down,  even her,  and the
          daughters of the  famous nations, unto the nether  parts
          of  the  earth, with  them  that  go  down  into  the  pit.
          Whom dost thou pass in beauty ?  go down, and be thou
          laid  with  the  uncircumcised.  They  shall fall  in  the
          midst of  them that are  slain  by the  sword:  she is de­
          livered to  the sword :  draw  her and all her multitudes.
          The strong among  the  mighty  shall speak  to him out
          of the midst of hell with them that  help him:  they are
          gone down, they  lie uncircumcised, slain  by the sword.
          Asshur is  there  and  all  her  company:  his  graves  are
          about  him:  all  of  them  slain,  fallen  by  the  sword:
          whose  graves are  set in  the sides  of  the  pit, and  her
          company is round  about  her  grave:  all  of them slain,
          fallen  by  the sword,  which caused terror in the land of
          the living.  There is Elam and all her multitude  round
          about her  grave, all of  them  slain, fallen by the sword
          which  are  gone  down  uncircumcised  into  the  nether
          parts of the earth, which caused their terror in the land
          of  the  living;  yet  have they  borne  their  shame with
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