Ezekiel 32:5
3 This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will spread My net over you with a company of many peoples, and they will draw you up in My net.
4 I will abandon you on the land and hurl you into the open field. I will cause all the birds of the air to settle upon you, and all the beasts of the earth to eat their fill of you.
I will put your flesh on the mountains and fill the valleys with your remains.
6 I will drench the land with the flow of your blood, all the way to the mountains— the ravines will be filled.
7 When I extinguish you, I will cover the heavens and darken their stars. I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon will not give its light.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- I will put your flesh on the mountains and fill the valleys with your remains.
- KJV
- And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height.
- WEB
- I will lay your flesh on the mountains, and fill the valleys with your height.
- ASV
- And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height.
- DARBY
- And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with the heap of thy [members];
- BLB
- And I will lay your flesh upon the mountains, and I will fill the valleys with your remains.
- ÅB
- Jeg vil kaste ditt kjøtt opp på fjellene og fylle dalene med din store kropp.
- OTB
- Jeg vil legge ditt kjøtt på fjellene
og fylle dalene med dine levninger. - B1930
- Jeg vil kaste ditt kjøtt op på fjellene og fylle dalene med din store kropp.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ezekiel 31:12
Foreigners, the most ruthless of the nations, cut it down and left it. Its branches have fallen on the mountains and in every valley; its boughs lay broken in all the earth’s ravines. And all the peoples of the earth left its shade and abandoned it.
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