Commento su Ezechiele 30:21

I have broken the arm of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt already another time, for I placed his army in the hands of Nebuchadnezzar in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, as it is said in the Book of Jeremiah (46:2): “Concerning Egypt, concerning the army of Pharaoh-neco, the king of Egypt, which was on the Euphrates in Carcemish, whom Nebuchadnezzar king smote, etc.”

and behold, it was not bound from that day on, as it is said at the end of the Book of Kings (II 24:7): “And the king of Egypt no longer went out of his land, for the king of Babylonia had taken from the river of Egypt,” and with this expression Jeremiah, too, prophesied concerning that blow, using the language “it has no cure,” as it is said (Jer. 46:11): “Go up to Gilead and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt; in vain you have increased medicines, you have no cure.”

חֻבָּשָּׁה is an expression of binding, for they bind the broken bone.

to place a bandage [Heb. חִתּוּל,] [a dressing] made of cloth and plaster, like (above 16: 44): “nor swaddled at all (והֳחְתֵּל לֹא חֻתָּלְתְּ).”

to grasp a sword that he should have more strength to wage war.