Egypt = Israel?

I was wrong to think that Tyre received special treatment from Ezekiel because scholars have counted seven oracles against Tyre, compared to one or two oracles against the other neighbours. These 7 oracles amount to two and a half chapters. Today, I came across another traditional enemy of Israel, which Ezekiel devotes 4 chapters to denounce! It was Egypt. Again, there are 7 oracles, though they span across 4 chapters. Therefore, length alone is not very reliable.

God would punish Egypt because she proudly said
My Nile is my own; I made it (Ezekiel 29:3c).
However, when you continue to read how God punished Egypt, you would probably mistake her for Israel.
And I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of desolated countries; and her cities shall be a desolation forty years among cities that are laid waste. I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them among the countries.
For thus says the Lord GOD: At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples among whom they were scattered (Ezekiel 29:12-13)
Babylon was the executioner. But that did not seem right. Egypt was conquered by Alexander the Great, not Nebuchadrezzar.

Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall carry off its wealth and despoil it and plunder it; and it shall be the wages for his army (Ezekiel 29:19).
Since Babylon was the strongest nation at that time. Therefore, Ezekiel might mistake Alexander the Great for Nebuchadrezzar in his visions.
Reading Ezekiel 29 gives me the impression that he was talking about Israel instead of Egypt.
The oracle in Ezekiel 30 also warns against the supporters of Egypt.
Thus says the LORD: Those who support Egypt shall fall, and her proud might shall come down (Ezekiel 30:6a);
Ezekiel 30 tells the readers that God and Babylon worked together to conquer Egypt.
Ezekiel 31 sings praises to the greatness of Egypt, comparing it to 'a cedar in Lebanon' (Ezekiel 31:3a) Yet, she would fall and be sent down to the nether world (Ezekiel 32:18). Assyria, Elam, Meshech and Tubal, Edom and Sidon were her neighbours found in Sheol. That ends Ezekiel's prophecies against Egypt.

Ezekiel 33 is a re-run of Ezekiel 18. It repeats the theme that the righteous deeds of the righteous will not save them from God's punishment for their iniquities (Ezekiel 33:13). Similarly, when a wicked man repents and does good, God would ignore his previous wickedness (Ezekiel 33:16).
In Ezekiel 34, accusations were directed towards the leaders, shepherds of Israel. They were not doing their jobs properly. God would punish them.
You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the fatlings; but you do not feed the sheep.
The weak you have not strengthened, the sick you have not healed, the crippled you have not bound up, the strayed you have not brought back, the lost you have not sought, and with force and harshness you have ruled them.
So they were scattered, because there was no shepherd; and they became food for all the wild beasts (Ezekiel 34:3-5).
In the end, God would take up the role of a Good Shepherd Himself.
They shall no more be a prey to the nations, nor shall the beasts of the land devour them; they shall dwell securely, and none shall make them afraid (Ezekiel 34:28).

My dear Advocate, Saturnia is spending a couple of days in Kyoto. I entrust her into Your hand. May she benefit much from this trip. Amen.