Ezekiel 32:5

THE MESSAGE

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.

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, on the first day of the twelfth month, God 's Message came to me: "Son of man, sing a funeral lament over Pharaoh king of Egypt. Tell him: "‘You think you're a young lion prowling through the nations. You're more like a dragon in the ocean, snorting and thrashing about. ³"‘ God , the Master, says: "‘I'm going to throw my net over you —many nations will get in on this operation— and haul you out with my dragnet. I'll dump you on the ground out in an open field And bring in all the crows and vultures for a sumptuous carrion lunch. I'll invite wild animals from all over the world to gorge on your guts. I'll scatter hunks of your meat in the mountains and strew your bones in the valleys. The country, right up to the mountains, will be drenched with your blood, your blood filling every ditch and channel. When I blot you out, I'll pull the curtain on the skies and shut out the stars. I'll throw a cloud across the sun and turn off the moonlight. I'll turn out every light in the sky above you and put your land in the dark. Decree of God , the Master. I'll shake up everyone worldwide when I take you off captive to strange and far-off countries. I'll shock people with you. Kings will take one look and shudder. I'll shake my sword and they'll shake in their boots. On the day you crash, they'll tremble, thinking, "That could be me!" ¹¹"‘ God , the Master, says: "‘The sword of the king of Babylon is coming against you. I'll use the swords of champions to lay your pride low, Use the most brutal of nations to knock Egypt off her high horse, to puncture that hot-air pomposity. I'll destroy all their livestock that graze along the river. Neither human foot nor animal hoof will muddy those waters anymore. I'll clear their springs and streams, make their rivers flow clean and smooth. Decree of God , the Master. When I turn Egypt back to the wild and strip her clean of all her abundant produce, When I strike dead all who live there, then they'll realize that I am God .' ¹⁶ "This is a funeral song. Chant it. Daughters of the nations, chant it. Chant it over Egypt for the death of its pomp." Decree of God , the Master.

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 33:8
Esau then asked, "And what was the meaning of all those herds that I met?" "I was hoping that they would pave the way for my master to welcome me."

Genesis 33:15
Esau said, "Let me at least lend you some of my men." "There's no need," said Jacob. "Your generous welcome is all I need or want."

Genesis 47:25
They said, "You've saved our lives! Master, we're grateful and glad to be slaves to Pharaoh."

Ruth 2:2
One day Ruth, the Moabite foreigner, said to Naomi, "I'm going to work; I'm going out to glean among the sheaves, following after some harvester who will treat me kindly." Naomi said, "Go ahead, dear daughter."

1 Samuel 1:18
"Think well of me—and pray for me!" she said, and went her way. Then she ate heartily, her face radiant.

2 Samuel 16:4
"Everything that belonged to Mephibosheth," said the king, "is now yours." Ziba said, "How can I ever thank you? I'll be forever in your debt, my master and king; may you always look on me with such kindness!"

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.