King James Version
Ezekiel 32:5 in the King James Version says “And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height.” — study this verse from Ezekiel chapter 32 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height.”
Ezekiel 32:5 · KJV
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.
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.
And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height.
I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee. the land wherein: or, the land of thy swimming
And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light. put: or, extinguish thee
KJV Study — Public Domain
“And I will lay”
H5414to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“thy flesh”
H1320flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphemistically) the pudenda of a man
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“and fill”
H4390to fill or (intransitively) be full of, in a wide application (literally and figuratively)
“the valleys”
H1516a gorge (from its lofty sides; hence, narrow, but not a gully or winter-torrent)
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