Ezekiel 35

Ezekiel · Chapter 35

Ezekiel 35:8

1Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,2Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,3And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount Seir, I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate.4I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.5Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:6Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.7Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth.8And 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.9I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.10Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the LORD was there:11Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee.12And thou shalt know that I am the LORD, and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.13Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.14Thus saith the Lord GOD; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate.15As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Idumea, even all of it: and they shall know that I am the LORD.

King James Version (1769)

Other translations

VerseKJVBSBASV
8And 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.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.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.

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Original Hebrew words

EnglishHebrewSay itStrong'sMeaning
and I will fillוּמִלֵּאתִ֥יu-mi-le-TIH4390
to fill

מָלֵא (ma.le) 1) to fill, be full 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be full 1a1a) fulness, abundance (participle) 1a1b) to be full, be accomplished, be ended 1a2) to consecrate, fill the hand 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be filled, be armed, be satisfied 1b2) to be accomplished, be ended 1c) (Piel) 1c1) to fill 1c2) to satisfy 1c3) to fulfil, accomplish, complete 1c4) to confirm 1d) (Pual) to be filled 1e) (Hithpael) to mass themselves against Aramaic equivalent: me.la (מְלָא "to fill" H4391)

mountains itsהָרָ֖יוha-RAVH2022G
mountain: mount

הַר (har) : mount/hill hill, mountain, hill country, mount

slain [ones] itsחֲלָלָ֑יוcha-la-LAVH2491A
slain: killed

חָלָל (cha.lal) : killed 1) slain, fatally wounded, pierced 1a) pierced, fatally wounded 1b) slain Also means: cha.lal (חָלָל ": wounded" H2491H)

hills yourגִּבְעוֹתֶ֤יךָgiv-'o-TEI-khaH1389I
hill

גִּבְעָה (giv.ah) 1) hill 1a) hill (lower than a mountain) 1b) as a place of illicit worship 1c) poetic for mountain 1d) used in place names

and valleys yourוְגֵאוֹתֶ֙יךָ֙ve-ge-'o-TEI-khaH1516R
valley

גַּיְא (gay) valley, a steep valley, narrow gorge

and allוְכָל־ve-kholH3605
all

כֹּל (kol) 1) all, the whole 1a) all, the whole of 1b) any, each, every, anything 1c) totality, everything Aramaic equivalent: kol (כֹּל "all" H3606)

ravines yourאֲפִיקֶ֔יךָ'a-fi-KEI-chaH0650
channel

אָפִיק (a.phiq) 1) channel 2) ravine 3) of hollow bones (fig.)

[those] slain ofחַלְלֵי־cha-lei-H2491A
slain: killed

חָלָל (cha.lal) : killed 1) slain, fatally wounded, pierced 1a) pierced, fatally wounded 1b) slain Also means: cha.lal (חָלָל ": wounded" H2491H)

a swordחֶ֖רֶבCHE-revH2719
sword

חֶ֫רֶב (che.rev) 1) sword, knife 1a) sword 1b) knife 1c) tools for cutting stone

they will fallיִפְּל֥וּyi-pe-LUH5307J
to fall: fall

נָפַל (na.phal) : fall/drop/fail 1) to fall, lie, be cast down, fail 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to fall 1a2) to fall (of violent death) 1a3) to fall prostrate, prostrate oneself before 1a4) to fall upon, attack, desert, fall away to, go away to, fall into the hand of 1a5) to fall short, fail, fall out, turn out, result 1a6) to settle, waste away, be offered, be inferior to 1a7) to lie, lie prostrate 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to cause to fall, fell, throw down, knock out, lay prostrate 1b2) to overthrow 1b3) to make the lot fall, assign by lot, apportion by lot 1b4) to let drop, cause to fail (fig.) 1b5) to cause to fall …

Words and meanings from STEPBible data (Tyndale House, Cambridge, CC BY 4.0). The capitalized syllable is the stressed one.