Ezekiel 32:5
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New International Version (©2011)
I will spread your flesh on the mountains and fill the valleys with your remains.

New Living Translation (©2007)
I will scatter your flesh on the hills and fill the valleys with your bones.

English Standard Version (©2001)
I will strew your flesh upon the mountains and fill the valleys with your carcass.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"I will lay your flesh on the mountains And fill the valleys with your refuse.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
I will put your flesh on the mountains and fill the valleys with your carcass.

International Standard Version (©2012)
I'll cover the mountains with your flesh and fill their valleys with your rotting carcass.

NET Bible (©2006)
I will put your flesh on the mountains, and fill the valleys with your maggot-infested carcass.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
I will scatter your flesh on the hills and fill the valleys with your rotting corpse.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And I will lay your flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with your dead bodies.

American King James Version
And I will lay your flesh on the mountains, and fill the valleys with your height.

American Standard Version
And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and will fill thy hills with thy corruption,

Darby Bible Translation
And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with the heap of thy members;

English Revised Version
And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy height.

Webster's Bible Translation
And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains, and fill the valleys with thy hight.

World English Bible
I will lay your flesh on the mountains, and fill the valleys with your height.

Young's Literal Translation
And I have put thy flesh on the mountains, And filled the valleys with thy hugeness,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

32:1-16 It becomes us to weep and tremble for those who will not weep and tremble for themselves. Great oppressors are, in God's account, no better than beasts of prey. Those who admire the pomp of this world, will wonder at the ruin of that pomp; which to those who know the vanity of all things here below, is no surprise. When others are ruined by sin, we have to fear, knowing ourselves guilty. The instruments of the desolation are formidable. And the instances of the desolation are frightful. The waters of Egypt shall run like oil, which signifies there should be universal sadness and heaviness upon the whole nation. God can soon empty those of this world's goods who have the greatest fulness of them. By enlarging the matters of our joy, we increase the occasions of our sorrow. How weak and helpless, as to God, are the most powerful of mankind! The destruction of Egypt was a type of the destruction of the enemies of Christ.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains,.... The remainder of it, left by the birds and beasts of prey, and who might carry it thither; or it intends such of the Egyptians who should flee to the mountains for safety, but should fall by the hands of the enemy there. So the Targum,

"and I will give the flesh of thy slain upon the mountains.''

And fill the valleys with thy height; his huge army, and with which he prided and lifted up himself, and thought himself safe in; which should fall in such great numbers as to cover the plains and valleys where the battle was fought. Jarchi observes, that the word for "height" has with some the signification of "worms"; and so the Syriac version renders it, "and the valleys shall be filled with thy worms"; bred in the carcasses of the slain: and so the Vulgate Latin version, "with corrupt matter"; such as issues out of putrefied wounds. The Targum very rightly paraphrases it,

"the valleys shall be filled with the carcasses of thine army.''

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

5. thy height—thy hugeness [Fairbairn]. The great heap of corpses of thy forces, on which thou pridest thyself. "Height" may refer to mental elevation, as well as bodily [Vatablus].

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A Lament for Pharaoh King of Egypt
…4Then will I leave you on the land, I will cast you forth on the open field, and will cause all the fowls of the heaven to remain on you, and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with you. 5And I will lay your flesh on the mountains, and fill the valleys with your height. 6I will also water with your blood the land wherein you swim, even to the mountains; and the rivers shall be full of you. …

Ezekiel 31:12 and the most ruthless of foreign nations cut it down and left it. Its boughs fell on the mountains and in all the valleys; its branches lay broken in all the ravines of the land. All the nations of the earth came out from under its shade and left it.
Ezekiel 35:8 I will fill your mountains with the slain; those killed by the sword will fall on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines.
Ezekiel 39:4 On the mountains of Israel you will fall, you and all your troops and the nations with you. I will give you as food to all kinds of carrion birds and to the wild animals.