English Standard Version
Ezekiel 32:5
5I will strew your flesh upon the mountains and fill the valleys with your carcass.
Ezekiel 32:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height.
- New International Version (NIV)I will spread your flesh on the mountains and fill the valleys with your remains.
- New King James Version (NKJV)I will lay your flesh on the mountains, And fill the valleys with your carcass.
- New Living Translation (NLT)I will scatter your flesh on the hills and fill the valleys with your bones.
Context of Ezekiel 32:5
3Thus says the Lord God: I will throw my net over you with a host of many peoples, and they will haul you up in my dragnet. 4And I will cast you on the ground; on the open field I will fling you, and will cause all the birds of the heavens to settle on you, and I will gorge the beasts of the whole earth with you. I will strew your flesh upon the mountains and fill the valleys with your carcass. 6I will drench the land even to the mountains with your flowing blood, and the ravines will be full of you. 7When I blot you out, I will cover the heavens and make their stars dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light.
Read all of Ezekiel 32Ezekiel 32:5 word by word
וְנָתַתִּ֥י אֶת־בְּשָׂרְךָ֖ עַל־הֶֽהָרִ֑ים וּמִלֵּאתִ֥י הַגֵּאָי֖וֹת רָמוּתֶֽךָ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Commentaries on Ezekiel 32:5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5And fill the valleys with thy height - Some translate, with the worms, which should proceed from the putrefaction of his flesh.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5The 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.”Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4-6mountains … valleys … mountains … ravines: In Hebrew, this is a literary device called a merism (a way of naming the outer parts to include everything in between). It shows both the boundaries and all that lies within them. Here, it emphasizes that God’s judgment would cover the whole land. The description of destruction uses hyperbole (intentional exaggeration). This strong language shows that Egypt’s defeat would be complete.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. thy height--thy hugeness [Fairbairn]. The great heap of corpses of thy forces, on which thou pridest thyself. "Height" may refer to mental elevation, as well as bodily [Vatablus].Read the comment
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Commentaries on Ezekiel 32
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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