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Ezekiel 35:8

Judgment

6 therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will give you over to bloodshed and it will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, it will pursue you.

7 I will make Mount Seir a desolate waste and will cut off from it those who come and go.

I will fill its mountains with the slain; those killed by the sword will fall on your hills, in your valleys, and in all your ravines.

9 I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

10 Because you have said, ‘These two nations and countries will be ours, and we will possess them,’ even though the LORD was there,

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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.

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BSB
I will fill its mountains with the slain; those killed by the sword will fall on your hills, in your valleys, and in all your ravines.
KJV
And I will fill his mountains with his slain men: in thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they fall that are slain with the sword.
WEB
I will fill its mountains with its slain. The slain with the sword will fall in your hills and in your valleys and in all your watercourses.
ASV
And I will fill its mountains with its slain: in thy hills and in thy valleys and in all thy watercourses shall they fall that are slain with the sword.
DARBY
and I will fill his mountains with his slain. In thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy water-courses shall they fall that are slain with the sword.
BLB
And I will fill its mountains with the slain. On your hills, and in your valleys, and in all your ravines, those slain by the sword will fall in them.
ÅB
Jeg vil fylle dets fjell med dets drepte menn; på dine hauger og i dine daler og i alle dine bekker skal det falle menn som er drept ved sverd.
OTB
Jeg vil fylle dine fjell med de drepte; de som er drept med sverdet skal falle på dine høyder, i dine daler og i alle dine raviner.
B1930
Jeg vil fylle dets fjell med dets drepte menn; på dine hauger og i dine daler og i alle dine bekker skal det falle menn som er drept ved sverd.

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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  • Ezekiel 32:4–5

    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.

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  • Ezekiel 39:4–5

    On the mountains of Israel you will fall—you and all your troops and the nations with you. I will give you as food to every kind of ravenous bird and wild beast.

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  • Isaiah 34:2–7

    The LORD is angry with all the nations and furious with all their armies. He will devote them to destruction; He will give them over to slaughter.

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