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.’ ”
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.
- BSB 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.’”
- 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.
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- Ezek 25:10to the children of the east, to go against the children of Ammon; and I will give them for a possession, that the children of Ammon may not be remembered among the nations.
- Mal 4:1“For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
- Ezek 20:47–48and tell the forest of the South, ‘Hear Yahweh’s word: Thus says the Lord Yahweh, “Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and it shall devour every green tree in you, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned thereby.
- Zeph 2:9Therefore as I live, says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them, and the survivors of my nation will inherit them.
- Matt 24:35Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
- Matt 3:10“Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.
- Num 23:19God is not a man, that he should lie, nor the son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?
- Matt 3:12His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.”
- Isa 34:3–7Their slain will also be cast out, and the stench of their dead bodies will come up; and the mountains will melt in their blood.
- Ezek 21:30Cause it to return into its sheath. In the place where you were created, in the land of your birth, will I judge you.
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