You will be fuel for the fire. Your blood will stain your own land. You will not be remembered, for I, the LORD, have spoken.’”
Parallel translations
- WEB You will be for fuel to the fire. Your blood will be in the middle of the land. You shall be remembered no more; for I, Yahweh, have spoken it.”’”
- KJV Thou shalt be for fuel to the fire; thy blood shall be in the midst of the land; thou shalt be no more remembered: for I the LORD have spoken it.
- NKJV You shall be fuel for the fire; Your blood shall be in the midst of the land. You shall not be remembered, For I the Lord have spoken.’ ”
- NASB You will be fuel for the fire; your blood will be in the midst of the land. You will not be remembered, for I, the Lord, have spoken.’ ”
- NLT You will be fuel for the fire, and your blood will be spilled in your own land. You will be utterly wiped out, your memory lost to history, for I, the Lord, have spoken!”
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Quick answer
Ammon will become fuel for fire, their blood spilled in the land, and they will be remembered no more, for God has spoken it. Their destruction will be total and final.
Overview
The oracle against Ammon closes with complete erasure: consumed by fire, their blood in the land, their memory blotted out. The finality is sealed by 'I, Yahweh, have spoken it.' This sober ending shows the end of every people that sets itself against God, and it heightens the wonder of grace offered to those who turn to Him.
Cross-references & the web
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- Ezek 25:10I will give it along with the Ammonites as a possession to the people of the East, so that the Ammonites will no longer be remembered among the nations.
- Mal 4:1“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”
- Ezek 20:47–48Say to the forest of the Negev: Hear the word of the LORD! This is what the Lord GOD says: I am about to ignite in you a fire, and it will devour all your trees, both green and dry. The blazing flame will not be quenched, and by it every face from south to north will be scorched.
- Zeph 2:9Therefore, as surely as I live,” declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah—a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of My people will plunder them; the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.”
- Matt 24:35Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
- Matt 3:10The axe lies ready at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.
- Num 23:19God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?
- Matt 3:12His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
- Isa 34:3–7Their slain will be left unburied, and the stench of their corpses will rise; the mountains will flow with their blood.
- Ezek 21:30Return the sword to its sheath! In the place where you were created, in the land of your origin, I will judge you.
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