Bible Strands
Ezekiel 32:5
I will put your flesh on the mountains and fill the valleys with your remains.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The speaker (Yahweh) addresses the subject of judgment in Ezekiel 32, pronouncing imminent desolation immediately after announcing abandonment to the open field.
The words — בְּשָׂרְךָ (besarekha) = your flesh and רָמוּתֶךָ (ramutekha) = your remains. These terms specify the physical subject of the coming devastation.
The thread — The motif of bodies covering elevated ground and filling low places recurs in Ezekiel 31:12, where cut branches fall on mountains. This imagery extends the judgment theme across the prophet’s oracle against the proud.
Why it lands — The text states that the speaker will deposit the subject’s flesh on mountains and fill valleys with remains. It demands recognition that political or military power will end in total exposure and decay.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height.
Cross-references
- Ezekiel 31:12 Foreigners, the most ruthless of the nations, cut it down and left it. Its branches have fallen on the mountains and in every valley; its boughs lay broken in all the earth’s ravines. And all the peoples of the earth left its shade and abandoned it.