“I will also water the land with the flow of your blood, Even to the mountains; And the riverbeds will be full of you.
Parallel translations
- WEB I will also water with your blood the land in which you swim, even to the mountains; and the watercourses shall be full of you.
- KJV I will also water with thy blood the land wherein thou swimmest, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of thee.
- BSB I will drench the land with the flow of your blood, all the way to the mountains—the ravines will be filled.
- NASB “I will also make the land drink the discharge of your blood As far as the mountains, And the ravines will be full of you.
- NLT I will drench the earth with your gushing blood all the way to the mountains, filling the ravines to the brim.
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Quick answer
The land will be drenched with Egypt's blood, filling even the watercourses. Where the Nile once gave life, judgment now floods the ground with death.
Overview
In a stark reversal of Egypt's life-giving waters, God says the land will be soaked with the blood of the slain. The pollution Pharaoh caused (verse 2) is answered by a far greater outpouring in judgment. The image underscores the magnitude of the coming defeat and the seriousness of God's verdict against arrogant nations.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Isa 34:3Their slain will also be cast out, and the stench of their dead bodies will come up; and the mountains will melt in their blood.
- Isa 34:7The wild oxen will come down with them, and the young bulls with the mighty bulls; and their land will be drunken with blood, and their dust made greasy with fat.
- Rev 14:20The wine press was trodden outside of the city, and blood came out of the wine press, even to the bridles of the horses, as far as one thousand six hundred stadia.
- Exod 7:17Yahweh says, “In this you shall know that I am Yahweh. Behold, I will strike with the rod that is in my hand on the waters which are in the river, and they shall be turned to blood.
- Rev 16:6For they poured out the blood of the saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve this.”
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