Ezekiel 32:5

Amplified Bible

"And I will scatter your flesh on the mountains And fill the valleys with your debris [your corpses and their worms].

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I will put your flesh on the mountainsand fill the valleys with your carcass.

Hebrew Names Version
I will lay your flesh on the mountains, and fill the valleys with your height.

King James Version
And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height.

English Standard Version
I will strew your flesh upon the mountains and fill the valleys with your carcass.

New American Standard Bible
"I will lay your flesh on the mountains And fill the valleys with your refuse.

New Century Version
I will scatter your flesh on the mountains and fill the valleys with what is left of you.

World English Bible
I will lay your flesh on the mountains, and fill the valleys with your height.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And I will lay thy flesh vpon the mountaines, and fill the valleys with thine height.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"I will lay your flesh on the mountains And fill the valleys with your refuse.

Legacy Standard Bible
I will put your flesh on the mountainsAnd fill the valleys with your refuse.

Berean Standard Bible
I will put your flesh on the mountains and fill the valleys with your remains.

Contemporary English Version
I will spread your rotting flesh over the mountains and in the valleys,

Complete Jewish Bible
I will leave your flesh on the mountains and fill the valleys with your rotting carcass.

Darby Translation
And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with the heap of thy [members];

Easy-to-Read Version
I will scatter your body on the mountains. I will fill the valleys with your dead body.

George Lamsa Translation
And I will scatter your flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with your dust;

Good News Translation
I will cover mountains and valleys with your rotting corpse.

Lexham English Bible
And I will put your flesh on the mountains, and I will fill the valleys with your carcass.

Literal Translation
And I will put your flesh on the mountains and fill the valleys with your heap.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thy flesh will I cast vpo the hilles, and fyll the valleys with thy hyenesse.

American Standard Version
And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height.

Bible in Basic English
And I will put your flesh on the mountains, and make the valleys full of your blood.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy foulness.

King James Version (1611)
And I will lay thy flesh vpon the mountaines, and fill the valleis with thy height.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thy flesh wyll I lay vpon the hils, and fill the valleyes with thy highnesse.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And I will cast thy flesh upon the mountains, and will saturate them with thy blood.

English Revised Version
And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Y schal yyue thi fleischis on hillis, and Y schal fille thi litle hillis with thi root;

Update Bible Version
And I will lay your flesh on the mountains, and fill the valleys with your height.

Webster's Bible Translation
And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy hight.

New English Translation
I will put your flesh on the mountains, and fill the valleys with your maggot-infested carcass.

New King James Version
I will lay your flesh on the mountains, And fill the valleys with your carcass.

New Living Translation
I will scatter your flesh on the hills and fill the valleys with your bones.

New Life Bible
I will lay your flesh on the mountains, and fill the valleys with what is left of you.

New Revised Standard
I will strew your flesh on the mountains, and fill the valleys with your carcass.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And I will lay thy flesh on the mountains, - And fill the valleys, with thy blood;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and will fill thy hills with thy corruption,

Revised Standard Version
I will strew your flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with your carcass.

Young's Literal Translation
And I have put thy flesh on the mountains, And filled the valleys [with] thy hugeness,

Contextual Overview

¹In the twelfth year [after King Jehoiachin of Judah was taken into exile by the king of Babylon], in the twelfth month, on the first of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying, ²"Son of man, take up a dirge (funeral poem to be sung) over Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him, 'You have compared yourself to a young lion among the nations, But you are like a monster in the seas; You burst into your rivers And disturbed and muddied the waters with your feet And fouled their rivers [the source of their prosperity].'" ³Thus says the Lord GOD, "I will spread out My net over you With a company of many nations, And they will bring you up in My net. ⁴"Then I will leave you (Egypt) on the land; I will hurl you on the open field. And I will make all the birds of the sky dwell on you, And I will satisfy the animals of all the earth with you. ⁵"And I will scatter your flesh on the mountains And fill the valleys with your debris [your corpses and their worms].⁶"I will also water the land with your flowing blood As far as the mountains, And the ravines will be full of you. ⁷"And when I extinguish you, I will cover the heavens [of Egypt] and darken their stars; I will cover the sun with a cloud And the moon will not give its light. ⁸"All the bright lights in the heavens I will darken over you And I will place darkness on your land," Says the Lord GOD. ⁹"I will also put fear into the hearts of many peoples when I bring your destruction [and captivity] among the nations, into countries which you have not known. ¹⁰"I will make many peoples appalled at you [at your judgment and your defeat], and their kings will be horribly afraid of you when I brandish My sword [of judgment] before them; they will tremble and shudder every moment, every man for his own life, on the day of your downfall."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

And I: To represent the power, rapaciousness, and cruelty of Pharaoh, he had been compared to a fierce young lion, and also to an immense, overgrown sea-monster, or crocodile; and here it is predicted that God would cast a net over him, by which many companies of people should drag him out of his rivers, and cast him into the open field, mountains, valleys, etc., to be devoured by birds and beasts of prey; that is, his ruin would be complete, and attended with terrible miseries to the Egyptians, and afford a large booty to their enemies.

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 21:24 - that dieth Isaiah 34:3 - and the mountains Ezekiel 31:12 - upon Ezekiel 35:8 - General Ezekiel 39:4 - I will

Cross-References

Genesis 31:16
"Surely all the riches which God has taken from our father are ours and our children's. Now then, whatever God has told you to do, do it."

Genesis 33:8
Esau asked, "What do you mean by all this company which I have met?" And he answered, "[These are] to find favor in the sight of my lord."

Genesis 33:11
"Please accept my blessing (gift) which has been brought to you, for God has dealt graciously with me and I have everything [that I could possibly want]." So Jacob kept urging him and Esau accepted it.

Genesis 33:15
Then Esau said, "Please let me leave with you some of the people who are with me." But Jacob said, "What need is there [for it]? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord."

Genesis 47:25
And they said, "You have saved our lives! Let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants."

Ruth 2:2
And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, "Please let me go to the field and glean among the ears of grain after one [of the reapers] in whose sight I may find favor." Naomi said to her, "Go, my daughter."

1 Samuel 1:18
Hannah said, "Let your maidservant find grace and favor in your sight." So the woman went on her way and ate, and her face was no longer sad.

2 Samuel 16:4
Then the king said to Ziba, "Behold, everything that belonged to Mephibosheth is [now] yours." Ziba said, "I bow down [in honor and gratitude]; let me find favor in your sight, O my lord the king."

Job 6:22
"Did I ever say, 'Give me something,' Or, 'Pay a bribe for me from your wealth,'

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains,.... The remainder of it, left by the birds and beasts of prey, and who might carry it thither; or it intends such of the Egyptians who should flee to the mountains for safety, but should fall by the hands of the enemy there. So the Targum,

"and I will give the flesh of thy slain upon the mountains.''

And fill the valleys with thy height; his huge army, and with which he prided and lifted up himself, and thought himself safe in; which should fall in such great numbers as to cover the plains and valleys where the battle was fought. Jarchi observes, that the word for "height" has with some the signification of "worms"; and so the Syriac version renders it, "and the valleys shall be filled with thy worms"; bred in the carcasses of the slain: and so the Vulgate Latin version, "with corrupt matter"; such as issues out of putrefied wounds. The Targum very rightly paraphrases it,

"the valleys shall be filled with the carcasses of thine army.''

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The prophet passes from the image of the crocodile to that of dead bodies of the slain heaped up on the land. Some render “height,” “foulness.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 32:5. And fill the valleys with thy height. — Some translate, with the worms, which should proceed from the putrefaction of his flesh.