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Ezekiel 32:8 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" I will make all the bright lights of the sky dark over you, and set darkness on your land,” says the Lord GOD. "
Ezekiel 32:8
Verse in Context
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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.
7 When I extinguish you, I will cover the heavens and make its stars dark. I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon won’t give its light.
8 I will make all the bright lights of the sky dark over you, and set darkness on your land,” says the Lord GOD.
9 “I will also trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries which you have not known.
10 Yes, I will make many peoples amazed at you, and their kings will be horribly afraid for you, when I brandish my sword before them. They will tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of your fall.”
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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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