Ezekiel 32 · Verse 3

Ezekiel 32:3

Thus saith the Lord God; I will therefore spread out my net over thee with a company of many people; and they shall bring thee up in my net.
Ezekiel 32:3, King James Version

Ezekiel 32:3 in other translations

BSBThis 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.
WEBThe Lord GOD says: “I will spread out my net on you with a company of many peoples. They will bring you up in my net.
ASVThus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will spread out my net upon thee with a company of many peoples; and they shall bring thee up in my net.
YLTThus said the Lord Jehovah: And--I have spread out for thee My net, With an assembly of many peoples, And they have brought thee up in My net.
DARBYThus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will also spread out my net over thee with an assemblage of many peoples; and they shall bring thee up in my net.
BBEThis is what the Lord has said: My net will be stretched out over you, and I will take you up in my fishing-net.
WebsterThus saith the Lord GOD; I will therefore spread out my net over thee with a company of many people; and they shall bring thee up in my net.

What does Ezekiel 32:3 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
3. with a company of many people--namely, the Chaldeans (Eze 29:3, 4; Ho 7:12). my net--for they are My instrument.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Ezekiel 32:1-16

The fall of Egypt. (Ezek 32:1-16) It is like that of other nations. (Ezek 32:17-32) Verses 1-16 It becomes us to weep and tremble for those who will not weep and tremble for themselves. Great oppressors are, in God's account, no better than beasts of prey. Those who admire the pomp of this world, will wonder at the ruin of that pomp; which to those who know the vanity of all things here below, is no surprise. When…

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Ezekiel 32:3 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

כֹּ֤הkohthusH3541
אָמַר֙'a.Marhe saysH559
אֲדֹנָ֣י'a.do.Nai[the] LordH136
יְהוִ֔הYah.wehYahwehH3069
וּפָרַשְׂתִּ֤יu.fa.ras.Tiand I will spreadH6566
עָלֶ֙יךָ֙'a.Lei.khaover youH5921
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
רִשְׁתִּ֔יrish.Tinet myH7568
בִּקְהַ֖לbik.Halby a company ofH6951
עַמִּ֣ים'a.MimpeoplesH5971
רַבִּ֑יםra.BimmanyH7227
וְהֶעֱל֖וּךָve.he.'e.Lu.khaand they will bring up youH5927
בְּחֶרְמִֽי\׃be.cher.Miin net myH2764

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Ezekiel 32:3

  • Ezekiel 12:13

    My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there.

  • Jeremiah 16:16

    Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the Lord, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.

  • Lamentations 1:13

    From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day.

  • Hosea 7:12

    When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard.

  • Habakkuk 1:14-17

    And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them? They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad. Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous. Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?

  • Ecclesiastes 9:12

    For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

  • Ezekiel 17:20

    And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him there for his trespass that he hath trespassed against me.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
12:13; 17:20; Ec 9:12; Jer 16:16; La 1:13; Ho 7:12; Hab 1:14-17

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Ezekiel 32:2

    Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.

  • Ezekiel 32:3

    Thus saith the Lord God; I will therefore spread out my net over thee with a company of many people; and they shall bring thee up in my net.

  • Ezekiel 32:4

    Then will I leave thee upon the land, I will cast thee forth upon the open field, and will cause all the fowls of the heaven to remain upon thee, and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with thee.

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Ezekiel 32:3 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Así ha dicho el Señor Jehová: Yo extenderé sobre ti mi red con reunión de muchos pueblos, y te harán subir con mi esparavel.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Ainsi dit le Seigneur, l’ Éternel: J’étendrai sur toi mon rets par un rassemblement de peuples nombreux, et ils te feront monter avec mon filet;
German
Elberfelder 1871		So spricht der Herr, Jehova: Daher werde ich mein Netz über dich ausbreiten durch eine Schar vieler Völker, und sie werden dich in meinem Garne heraufziehen.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Propterea hæc dicit Dominus Deus: Expandam super te rete meum in multitudine populorum multorum, et extraham te in sagena mea.