An enemy would invade Egypt, slay many of her people, take away her wealth, and tear down her national foundations. [1] Her neighbor Ethiopia (Cush, Nubia) would despair when this happened because Ethiopia had strong ties to Egypt. Egypt"s other allies would also fall: Put (on the African coast of the southern Red Sea), Lud (Lydia in Anatolia), Arabia, and Libya (farther west on the Mediterranean coast of Africa). "Arabia" (Heb. ha"arab) translates one pointing of the Hebrew text while "mixed people" (Heb. ha"ereb) renders another. Men from Put, Lud, Arabia, and other countries served Egypt as mercenary soldiers (cf. Ezekiel 27:10; Jeremiah 25:19-20 a, 24; Ezekiel 46:9; Ezekiel 46:21), and they may be the "mixed people" in view, if that is the correct reading. The Judeans who had fled to Egypt from the Babylonians would have suffered too, and they would have been part of this "mixed people."[source]