I will fill its mountains with its slain; those killed by the sword will fall on your hills, in your valleys, and in all your ravines.
Parallel translations
- WEB I will fill its mountains with its slain: in your hills and in your valleys and in all your watercourses shall they fall who are slain with the sword.
- KJV And I will fill his mountains with his slain men: in thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they fall that are slain with the sword.
- BSB I will fill its mountains with the slain; those killed by the sword will fall on your hills, in your valleys, and in all your ravines.
- NKJV And I will fill its mountains with the slain; on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines those who are slain by the sword shall fall.
- NLT I will fill your mountains with the dead. Your hills, your valleys, and your ravines will be filled with people slaughtered by the sword.
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Quick answer
Edom's mountains, hills, and valleys will be filled with those slain by the sword. The whole land becomes a place of death.
Overview
The piling up of geographic terms—mountains, hills, valleys, watercourses—stresses that no corner of Edom escapes the slaughter. The land that exulted over Israel's fall is itself filled with corpses. The imagery is grim but underscores the seriousness of God's response to those who delight in others' destruction.
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Cross-references · 4
- 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.
- Ezek 32:4–5I will leave you on the land, I will cast you out on the open field, and will cause all the birds of the sky to settle on you, and I will satisfy the animals of the whole earth with you.
- Ezek 39:4–5You shall fall on the mountains of Israel, you, and all your hordes, and the peoples who are with you: I will give you to the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the animals of the field to be devoured.
- Isa 34:2–7For Yahweh is enraged against all the nations, and angry with all their armies. He has utterly destroyed them. He has given them over for slaughter.
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