Isaiah 23:5 - Exposition

As at the report concerning Egypt ; rather, when the rumor shall reach Egypt . They shall be sorely pained . The Egyptians bore no great affection towards any foreign nation. They were a people whose charity began and ended at home. But the fall of Tyre was always a shock to them, and was felt to portend evil to themselves. The Asiatic power which was strong enough to capture the island-fortress would be a formidable enemy to Egypt itself, and might be expected at no distant date to attempt the conquest of the Nile valley.