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Ezekiel 32:5

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

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Heart;   Repentance;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Poetry;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Egypt;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Height;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Flesh;  

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

1 And it came about in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 Son of man, make a song of grief for Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and say to him, Young lion of the nations, destruction has come on you; and you were like a sea-beast in the seas, sending out bursts of water, troubling the waters with your feet, making their streams dirty. 3 This is what the Lord has said: My net will be stretched out over you, and I will take you up in my fishing-net. 4 And I will let you be stretched on the land; I will send you out violently into the open field; I will let all the birds of heaven come to rest on you and will make the beasts of all the earth full of you. 5 And I will put your flesh on the mountains, and make the valleys full of your blood. 6 And the land will be watered with your blood, and the waterways will be full of you. 7 And when I put out your life, the heaven will be covered and its stars made dark; I will let the sun be covered with a cloud and the moon will not give her light. 8 All the bright lights of heaven I will make dark over you, and put dark night on your land, says the Lord. 9 And the hearts of numbers of peoples will be troubled, when I send your prisoners among the nations, into a country which is strange to you. 10 And I will make a number of peoples overcome with wonder at you, and their kings will be full of fear because of you, when my sword is waved before them: they will be shaking every minute, every man fearing for his life, in the day of your fall.

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
For the wealth which God has taken from him is ours and our children's; so now, whatever God has said to you, do.
Genesis 33:8
And he said, What were all those herds which I saw on the way? And Jacob said, They were an offering so that I might have grace in my lord's eyes.
Genesis 33:11
Take my offering then, with my blessing; for God has been very good to me and I have enough: so at his strong request, he took it.
Genesis 33:15
And Esau said, Then keep some of my men with you. And he said, What need is there for that, if my lord is pleased with me?
Genesis 47:25
And they said to him, Truly you have kept us from death; may we have grace in your eyes, and we will be Pharaoh's servants.
Ruth 2:2
And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, Now let me go into the field and take up the heads of grain after him in whose eyes I may have grace. And she said to her, Go, my daughter.
1 Samuel 1:18
And she said, May your servant have grace in your eyes. So the woman went away, and took part in the feast, and her face was no longer sad.
2 Samuel 16:4
Then the king said to Ziba, Truly everything which was Mephibosheth's is yours. And Ziba said, I give honour to my lord, may I have grace in your eyes, my lord, O king!
Job 6:22
Did I say, Give me something? or, Make a payment for me out of 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.


 
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