I will lay your flesh on the mountains, and fill the valleys with your height.
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I will lay your flesh on the mountains, and fill the valleys with your height.
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And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height.
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And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy foulness.
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Passages linked to Ezekiel 32:5 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Ezekiel 31:12 Strangers, the tyrants of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him. His branches have fallen on the mountains and in all the valleys and his boughs are broken by all the watercourses of the land. All the peoples of the earth have gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain With heaps of the carcasses of thine army.
With heaps of the carcasses of thine army.
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.
John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Eze 32:5 And I will lay thy flesh upon…
Eze 32:5 And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height.
Ver. 5. With thy height.] Celsitudine tua; { a} with thy glory, which thou holdest dearer than thy flesh or life.
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{a} Oecolamp.
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Will lay; throw or cast.
Will lay; throw or cast.
Thy flesh; the carcasses of thy slain men and soldiers.
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Upon the mountains; whither they retired for safety. Fill the valleys; not so fill them as to equal them in height with hills, but we say a man fills a place who scatters much or many things though but on the surface; so here valleys filled.
With thy height; with the carcasses of thy princes, as the Chaldee paraphrast I think hits right; and so the French, et remplirai les vallies de tee glorieux qu’ on aura abbatus.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains,....…
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.''
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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.''
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain With thy height - With the carcasses of thy…
With thy height - With the carcasses of thy princes.
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 5. And fill the valleys with thy height.]…
Verse 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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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain The prophet passes from the image of the crocodile…
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.”
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Corruption. Septuagint, "blood." But romuth (Haydock) means rather "worms."…
Corruption. Septuagint, "blood." But romuth (Haydock) means rather "worms." (Syriac) (Calmet)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain thy height--thy hugeness [FAIRBAIRN]. The great heap of corpses…
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].
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 5. Cf. Eze_31:12 Other suggestions for “height” have little…
5. Cf. Eze_31:12 Other suggestions for “height” have little probability.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 General Information:
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Yahweh continues to speak to Pharaoh and to compare him to a monster that lives in the water.
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your worm-filled corpse
The worms help the dead body to rot. AT: "your rotting body" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)
the stream beds will be filled with your blood
This can be put into active form. AT: "I will fill the streams with your blood" (See: Active or Passive)
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flesh
blood
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