Charles Ellicott Commentary Isaiah 19:4

"And I will give over the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts." — Isaiah 19:4 (ASV)

Into the hand of a cruel lord. —The later history of Egypt presents so many examples of oppressive government that it is difficult to say to which of them the picture drawn here most resembles. Sargon, or Esarhaddon, or Psammetichus, who became king of Egypt on the breaking up of the dodecarchy, or Nebuchadnezzar, or Cambyses, has, each in his turn, been identified as presenting the features of the “cruel lord.”