Ezekiel 32 · Verse 5

Ezekiel 32:5

And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height.
Ezekiel 32:5, King James Version

Ezekiel 32:5 in other translations

BSBI will put your flesh on the mountains and fill the valleys with your remains.
WEBI will lay your flesh on the mountains, and fill the valleys with your height.
ASVAnd I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height.
YLTAnd I have put thy flesh on the mountains, And filled the valleys with thy hugeness,
DARBYAnd I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with the heap of thy members;
BBEAnd I will put your flesh on the mountains, and make the valleys full of your blood.
WebsterAnd I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy hight.

What does Ezekiel 32:5 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
5. 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].

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 5 And fill the valleys with thy height - Some translate, with the worms, which should proceed from the putrefaction of his flesh.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · 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 32:5 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.

וְנָתַתִּ֥יve.na.ta.Tiand I will putH5414
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
בְּשָׂרְךָ֖be.sa.re.Khaflesh yourH1320
עַל\־'al-onH5921
הֶֽהָרִ֑יםhe.ha.Rimthe mountainsH2022
וּמִלֵּאתִ֥יu.mi.le.Tiand I will fillH4390
הַגֵּאָי֖וֹתha.ge.'a.Yotthe valleysH1516
רָמוּתֶֽךָ\׃ra.mu.Te.khaheight yourH7419

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

Cross references for Ezekiel 32:5

  • Ezekiel 31:12

    And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And I.To represent the power, rapaciousness, and cruelty of Pharaoh, he had been compared to a fierce young lion, and also to an immense, overgrown sea-monster, or crocodile; and here it is predicted that God would cast a net over him, by which many companies of people should drag him out of his rivers, and cast him into the open field, mountains, valleys, etc., to be devoured by birds and beasts of prey; that is, his ruin would be complete, and attended with terrible miseries to the Egyptians, and afford a large booty to their enemies.

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Context

  • 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.

  • Ezekiel 32:5

    And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height.

  • Ezekiel 32:6

    I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee.

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Ezekiel 32:5 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y pondré tus carnes sobre los montes, y henchiré los valles de tu altura.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et je mettrai ta chair sur les montagnes, et je remplirai les vallées du monceau de tes membres;
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und ich werde dein Fleisch auf die Berge bringen und die Täler mit deinem Aase füllen.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Et dabo carnes tuas super montes, et implebo colles tuos sanie tua.