Ezekiel 35:8

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“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.”

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BSBPD

“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.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“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.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“And I will fill its mountains with its slain: in thy hills and in thy valleys and in all thy watercourses shall they fall that are slain with the sword.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“And filled his mountains with his wounded, Thy hills, and thy valleys, and all thy streams, The pierced of the sword fall into them.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Ezekiel 35:8 — 6 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Isaiah 34:2The LORD is angry with all the nations and furious with all their armies. He will devote them to destruction; He will give them over to slaughter.
  2. Ezekiel 31:12Foreigners, the most ruthless of the nations, cut it down and left it. Its branches have fallen on the mountains and in every valley; its boughs lay broken in all the earth’s ravines. And all the peoples of the earth left its shade and abandoned it.
  3. Ezekiel 32:4I will abandon you on the land and hurl you into the open field. I will cause all the birds of the air to settle upon you, and all the beasts of the earth to eat their fill of you.
  4. Ezekiel 32:5I will put your flesh on the mountains and fill the valleys with your remains.
  5. Ezekiel 32:6I will drench the land with the flow of your blood, all the way to the mountains— the ravines will be filled.
  6. Ezekiel 39:4On the mountains of Israel you will fall—you and all your troops and the nations with you. I will give you as food to every kind of ravenous bird and wild beast.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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