Ezekiel 32:6

I will drench the land with the flow of your blood, all the way to the mountains—the ravines will be filled.

Berean Standard Bible

Study note

Setting — God addresses Pharaoh and Egypt through Ezekiel, pronouncing judgment immediately after declaring that their corpses will cover the mountains and fill the valleys.

The words — The Hebrew verb וְהִשְׁקֵיתִי (ve./hish.kei.Ti) literally means "I will make drink," applied directly to מִדָּמְךָ (mi./da.me./Kha, "your blood") to describe the land being saturated.

The thread — This geographical saturation motif appears in Isaiah 34:3 and Isaiah 34:7, where judgment leaves mountains flowing with blood and the land drenched in it.

Why it lands — The text states that no terrain will remain untouched by the consequence of the pronouncement, demanding recognition of the absolute scope of the coming destruction.

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The Hebrew words

וְהִשְׁקֵיתִ֨יve./hish.kei.Tiand/ I will make drink אֶ֧רֶץ'E.retz[the] land צָפָתְךָ֛tza.fa.te./Khaoutflow/ your מִדָּמְךָ֖mi./da.me./Khafrom/ blood/ your אֶל־'el-to הֶֽהָרִ֑יםhe./ha.Rimthe/ mountains וַאֲפִקִ֖יםva./'a.fi.Kimand/ ravines יִמָּלְא֥וּןyi.mal.'U/nthey will be filled/ !מִמֶּֽךָּ׃mi.Me./kafrom/ you

King James Version

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

Cross-references

Isaiah 34:3 Their slain will be left unburied, and the stench of their corpses will rise; the mountains will flow with their blood.
Exodus 7:17 This is what the LORD says: By this you will know that I am the LORD. Behold, with the staff in my hand I will strike the water of the Nile, and it will turn to blood.
Isaiah 34:7 And the wild oxen will fall with them, the young bulls with the strong ones. Their land will be drenched with blood, and their soil will be soaked with fat.
Revelation 14:20 And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and the blood that flowed from it rose as high as the bridles of the horses for a distance of 1,600 stadia.
Revelation 16:6 For they have spilled the blood of saints and prophets, and You have given them blood to drink, as they deserve.”