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Ezekiel 32:28 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" “But you will be broken among the uncircumcised, and will lie with those who are slain by the sword. "
Ezekiel 32:28
Verse in Context
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26 “There is Meshech, Tubal, and all their multitude. Their graves are around them, all of them uncircumcised, slain by the sword; for they caused their terror in the land of the living.
27 They will not lie with the mighty who are fallen of the uncircumcised, who have gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war and have laid their swords under their heads. Their iniquities are on their bones; for they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.
28 “But you will be broken among the uncircumcised, and will lie with those who are slain by the sword.
29 “There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, who in their might are laid with those who are slain by the sword. They will lie with the uncircumcised, and with those who go down to the pit.
30 “There are the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Sidonians, who have gone down with the slain. They are put to shame in the terror which they caused by their might. They lie uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword, and bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.
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Ezekiel 32:1
"In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month, the LORD’s word came to me, saying,"
Ezekiel 32:2
"“Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and tell him, ‘You were likened to a young lion of the nations; yet you are as a monster in the seas. You broke out with your rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet, and fouled their rivers.’”"
Ezekiel 32:3
"The Lord GOD says: “I will spread out my net on you with a company of many peoples. They will bring you up in my net."
Ezekiel 32:4
"I 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. I will satisfy the animals of the whole earth with you."
Ezekiel 32:5
"I will lay your flesh on the mountains, and fill the valleys with your height."
Ezekiel 32:6
"I will also water the land in which you swim with your blood, even to the mountains. The watercourses will be full of you."
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