I will lay your flesh on the mountains, And fill the valleys with your carcass.
Parallel translations
- WEB I will lay your flesh on the mountains, and fill the valleys with your height.
- KJV And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height.
- BSB I will put your flesh on the mountains and fill the valleys with your remains.
- NASB “I will lay your flesh on the mountains And fill the valleys with your refuse.
- NLT I will scatter your flesh on the hills and fill the valleys with your bones.
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Quick answer
The slain Pharaoh and his armies will be so vast that their flesh covers mountains and fills valleys. The imagery conveys the immense scale of the slaughter.
Overview
Continuing the gruesome picture, God says Egypt's dead will litter the landscape. The hyperbolic language emphasizes the totality of the defeat awaiting a power that once seemed invincible. Such imagery serves to warn that pride against God brings ruin proportional to the height from which it falls.
Cross-references & the web
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- Ezek 31:12Strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: on the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the watercourses of the land; and all the peoples of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
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